(Figline Valdarno, Arezzo, 1878 – Prato, 1930), a poet and prose writer, attended high school in Arezzo and began higher education in Florence, but due to his family's financial difficulties, he continued his studies as a self-taught artist. He taught at various colleges and wrote his first books of poetry ("Eptacordo", 1907, "Canti sereni", 1909, "Turbini primavera", 1910, "Oltre il dolore", 1911). After abandoning teaching, he devoted himself to journalism, first as editor of the Florentine newspaper "Fieramosca" and then of the Bologna newspaper "Giornale del mattino", where he became a spokesman for interventionism, aligning himself with the positions of the Florentine Futurist group. He befriended Palazzeschi, Papini, and Soffici, embracing the less rhetorical and high-sounding aspects of Futurism, fostering a renewed ability to immerse himself in his own time. In 1916, in Bologna, together with Francesco Meriano, he founded the magazine “La Brigata”, where the verses that would later be collected in “La via della ricchezza” appeared, his most significant work, published by Vallecchi in 1919. Fascism initially saw him among its followers, but the killing of Matteotti (1924) distanced him from the prevailing ideology and consigned him to a cultural isolation further accentuated by a series of family misfortunes. After his death, his poetic production was collected in the volume “Poesie” (1934) with an introduction by Soffici. The collection of essays, “Antiche, moderni e altro” (1941) was also published posthumously.
The Bino Binazzi Fund is divided into the following sections: Correspondence, which collects letters sent to Binazzi by various correspondents including Soffici, Papini, Carrà, Viani, Svevo, Rosai, Saba, Raimondi, Prezzolini, Meriano, Maccari, Campana, De Chirico, Aleramo, De Pisis; Manuscripts, mostly attributable to Binazzi's poetic texts included in various collections, including some unpublished works and the writing of prose of various kinds (short stories, essays, reviews); Library, a collection of volumes related to Futurism, mostly first editions, among which several volumes by Soffici stand out (“Arthur Rimbaud”, Quaderni della Voce, 1911; “Arlecchino”, Edizioni di Lacerba, 1914; “Logbook”, Libreria della Voce, 1918; “First principles of a Futurist aesthetic”, Vallecchi, 1920; “Medardo Rosso”, Vallecchi, 1929); Journals, with “La rivista letteraria”, Rome, Series I, vol.2 (May 1920); Various, which collects various types of printed material (clippings, drafts, articles, advertisements).
