(Milan, 1907 – Livorno, 2004), a painter, joined Futurism in the 1930s, attracted by the artistic research of Prampolini, Fillia, and Munari. He moved to Livorno, where he dedicated himself to the family business, a thriving glassworks. In 1933, he took part in the exhibition "Futurist Homage to Umberto Boccioni" at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan, participated in the Futurist exhibition at Palazzo Ferroni in Florence, and participated in the first national exhibition of Futurist art in Rome. He exhibited ten paintings at the national Futurist exhibition held at the Bottega d'Arte in Livorno, organized by Marinetti, Fillia, and Mino Rosso. He exhibited in Hamburg in 1934 at the exhibition on Futurist Aeropittura, and from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s, he participated in all the Biennials and Quadrennials. Between 1933 and 1935, he contributed to the magazines "La città nuova" and "Stile futurista," both edited by Fillia. In 1941, he published the manifesto "Plastica delle essenze individuali" (Plastics of Individual Essences) and exhibited in Milan in the Futurist Aeropittori Hall during the Third Exhibition of the National Fascist Union of Fine Arts. Alongside his painting, he also worked as a graphic designer. Having served in the army since 1940, he was taken prisoner by the Allies in 1943. At the end of the war, he returned to Livorno, where he continued to paint and exhibit. In 2001, his work received definitive recognition with his participation in the major exhibition "Futurism 1909–1944" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
The Osvaldo Peruzzi Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, various printed materials (leaflets, invitations, catalogs, pamphlets), drawings, and a personal and photographic archive of his works. The documentation is currently being organized and catalogued, except for the volumes in the Library section , which are organized and available for consultation. These include texts related to Futurism in all its artistic, literary, musical, and theoretical manifestations. Numerous exhibition catalogs of Futurist artists are included, including Balla, Benedetta, Benedetto, Cangiullo, Dottori, Farfa, Fillia, Depero, Diulgheroff, Lotti, Marchi, and Prampolini. Works by recent authors, such as Umberto Ronco, a Futurist poet of the latest generation, and Bruno G. Sanzin, coexist alongside those of now-established writers such as F.T. Marinetti, Benedetta, Cangiullo, and Fillia. The Library also houses texts analyzing the movement's poetics, the complete collection of numerous Futurist manifestos in facsimile editions from 1909 to 1944, and numerous catalogs of group exhibitions and themed exhibitions, including, to name just a few, "Futurism and Advertising," "Iconography of F. T. Marinetti," and "Futurism in Florence" in Milan, Naples, and La Spezia. The Library also holds a substantial collection of publications on Peruzzi himself, ranging from the catalogs of numerous solo and group exhibitions held in Italy and abroad to various monographs on his painting, from that by F. T. Marinetti in 1941 to the most recent by Marzio Pinottini in 1981.
