Italo Calvino's Opera As An Archipelago (Atlante Calvino) by DensityDesign Research Lab

This interactive visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one of the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. The visualisation depicts the corpus of author's literary works with the goal of providing a comprehensinve overview and a fresh access to his opera. Every graphic element –every hill– correspond to a writing: there are more than 200 of them, published between 1943 and 1984 and positioned in the space according to their aggregation in collections and their date of publication.

We suggest to browse the interactive visualisation with Google Chrome. The visualisation is in Italian only: right-click > translate to English helps in orientating.