Explore Gadda's literary world by browsing through his bookshelves.

Delving into Gadda's personal library offers a unique insight into the preferences and habits that shaped him as an author. The data extracted from his library allows us to explore the mind of the engineer through a careful analysis. This page presents the data with the goal of providing a straightforward visualization of key aspects:

Authors. Representation of the writers present in Gadda's library.
Books. Information about the volumes, including genre and edition year, to offer a comprehensive view of Gadda's literary collection.
Annotations.Focusing exclusively on the text annotated by Gadda, shedding light on his thoughts and interactions with the content.

Out of

2158

authors in his library, here are the top 20 personalities who are most prominently represented. The data are shown in a bubble chart format, through scaled circles containing images and text. Each bubble is sized by its value.

Hover on each bubble to find the number of books of each author

Among the top six authors, Gadda emerges as the most prevalent, demonstrating both the prominence of his own literary production and a diverse selection of classic authors.

Interact with the moving bullets of the bar chart to find the number of books

As a multifaceted reader, Gadda collected books by all genre.
His library reflects a rich tapestry of intellectual interests. With a core in Italian literature, it extends globally to encompass history, philosophy, technology, and languages. Beyond traditional genres, the collection spans arts, geography, and military topics, showcasing a multifaceted exploration of human expression and the world.
The data is organized and presented hierarchically in a radial bar chart. The primary layer represents the genre, while the secondary layer delineates subgenres, ensuring a comprehensive insight.

Click on each genre to gain a focused perspective.

The chart provides a comprehensive view of the volumes in Gadda's library based on their publication years. The x-axis represents the date-based data, specifically the publication year of the books, while the y-axis depicts the corresponding number of books for each year. This visual representation illuminates the temporal distribution of Gadda's literary collection, offering a clear insight into the ebb and flow of his reading preferences over the years.

Hover inside the chart to visulize the number of books for each year and use the scrollbar to zoom in.

The books he most loved and studied.
The data underscores the author's engagement with scholastic volumes. This emphasis on annotated study materials suggests a dedicated scholarly pursuit, where the act of annotating serves as a means of active learning and critical exploration.

The bar chart shows the 10 most annotated books.

Hover on each column to find how many annotation each book contains.

The bar chart shows the 10 most annotated authors

Hover on each column to find how many times each author has been annotated

The word cloud visually presents the most frequently used words in Gadda's annotations, extracted from Excel spreadsheets of word frequencies. This graphical representation offers an immediate and intuitive glimpse into the recurring themes, concepts, and emphases that characterize Gadda's annotations

Hover on the chart to see the number of occurances