Caffè Giubbe Rosse

Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical literary café in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence.

[4] The Giubbe Rosse was the place where the Futurist movement blossomed, struggled and expanded; it played a very important role in the history of Italian culture as a workshop of ideas, projects, and passions.

We want to encourage going in aggressive new directions, feverish sleeplessness, running, deathly leaps, slaps and blows".

[5] Poets such as Ardengo Soffici, Giovanni Papini,[6] Eugenio Montale,[7] Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giuseppe Prezzolini and many others met and wrote in this literary café[8] an important venue of Italian literature in the beginning of the 20th century.

[12] This cozy literary café, founded by two Germans, the Reininghaus brothers,[13] in 1896, has been closed from 2019 till 2024[14] for financial problems.