WRITER

Carlo Emilio Gadda

1893 - 1973

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Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo eˈmiːljo ˈɡadda]; 14 November 1893 – 21 May 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Emilio Gadda has received more than 108,730 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Carlo Emilio Gadda is the 2,477th most popular writer (up from 2,730th in 2019), the 2,390th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,463rd in 2019) and the 160th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Il primo libro delle favole
Italian Satire
1952
La madonna dei filosofi
1931
L' Adalgisa
1955
Le bizze del capitano in congedo e altri racconti
Bibliography, Gadda, Carlo Emilio, 1893-1973
1981
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Fiction, History, Italian Detective and mystery stories
1957
La cognizione del dolore
1963
La madonna dei filosofi
1931
La cognizione del dolore
1963
Il primo libro delle favole
Italian Satire
1952
L' Adalgisa
1955
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Fiction, History, Italian Detective and mystery stories
1957
Cognizione del dolore
Fiction, Grief
1969

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlo Emilio Gadda ranks 2,477 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrey Kurbsky, Lidia Zamenhof, George Ohsawa, Sergey Aksakov, John of Ephesus, and Marlen Haushofer. After him are Richard Wright, Eeva Kilpi, Ludovic Halévy, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Ulrich von Liechtenstein, and Timotheus of Miletus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Carlo Emilio Gadda ranks 117. Before him are Ba Maw, José Calvo Sotelo, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Paul van Zeeland, Meghnad Saha, and George Ohsawa. After him are Ernst Marischka, Frederick William Franz, José María Velasco Ibarra, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Olga Baclanova, and Herbert Read. Among people deceased in 1973, Carlo Emilio Gadda ranks 112. Before him are Dmytro Dontsov, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Gabriel Voisin, Walter Krüger, Tanzan Ishibashi, and Paul van Zeeland. After him are Noël Coward, Joseph Szigeti, Salchak Toka, Mirra Alfassa, Karel Ančerl, and Robert Watson-Watt.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Emilio Gadda ranks 2,390 out of 5,161. Before him are Lorenzo Tiepolo (1300), Bartolomeo Bon (1407), Franco Causio (1949), Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679), Mario Merz (1925), and Ferruccio Valcareggi (1919). After him are Vincenzo Gioberti (1801), Campanus of Novara (1210), Tito Schipa (1889), Vincenzo Foppa (1427), Ugo Locatelli (1916), and Adalbert I of Ivrea (880).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Carlo Emilio Gadda ranks 160. Before him are Tullia d'Aragona (1510), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Luigi Illica (1857), Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), and Ugo Betti (1892). After him are Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), Ottavio Rinuccini (1562), Ada Negri (1870), Duris of Samos (-340), Elio Vittorini (1908), and Alda Merini (1931).

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