Fausto Maria Martini

{{Short description|Italian poet and playwright (1886–1931)}}

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Fausto Maria Martini (14 April 1886, in Rome – 12 April 1931, in Rome) was an Italian poet, playwright, and literary critic of the Crepuscolari school of poets, best remembered for his play Ridi, Pagliaccio (1919), which was made into the film Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), his collection of poetry that became the 1915 silent film Rapsodia satanica, and his play Cortile which was made into the film Courtyard (1931).{{cite book |last1=Velluzzi |first1=Gian Luigi |title=Si sbarca a New York: di Fausto Maria Martini : tra romanzo e racconto |date=2001 |publisher=Morlacchi editore |isbn=978-88-87716-34-4 |language=it}}{{cite book |title=Music, Narrative and the Moving Image: Varieties of Plurimedial Interrelations |date=15 May 2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-40131-0 |page=71 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Corazzini |first1=Sergio |title=Liriche: Raccolta Definitiva Con Pref. Di Fausto M. Martini |date=1922 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Pippo |first1=Albert Di |title=Fausto Maria Martini |date=1936 |publisher=Brown University |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=D'Aloisio |first1=Nicola |title=Fausto Maria Martini |date=1919 |publisher=Modernissima |language=it}}