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Two days before the inauguration of the long-awaited exhibition on Futurism, the Italian avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century, the Macchi - Castoldi MC 72 seaplane will arrive in Rome, the aircraft that between 1934 and 1939 held the world speed record, capable of hurtling at over 700 km per hour. In addition to the plane, the exhibition includes many objects, radios and transmitters from the Officine Marconi, futurist furniture and clothing that will testify to the incredible modernity of the movement founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. There are many works arriving. From the MoMA in New York, one of the great masterpieces by Giacomo Balla, that Arco Lamp (1909-1911) that Umberto Boccioni did not want to exhibit in Paris at the first futurist exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune that shocked the Ville Lumière on 7 February 1912. But the great lenders will be the Italian museums. Many masterpieces come from the GNAM’s own deposits and from Milanese collections. The Museo del Novecento in Milan will lend the first versions of the Stati d’Animo triptych by Umberto Boccioni (1911). From the GAM in Milan will come the splendid Bambina che corre sul balcone (1912) by Giacomo Balla, while from the Gabinetto dei Disegni del Castello Sforzesco will come a beautiful self-portrait in tempera and pastel on paper by Boccioni from 1909. Among the great lenders is the MART in Rovereto, from where 18 works will come, the most precious of which is certainly Ballerina (1913) by Gino Severini. There are therefore great expectations for an exhibition that intends to celebrate the Italian genius.