Faceted search and browsing is an intuitive and powerful way of traversing a structured knowledge base and has been applied with success in many contexts. The GramsciSource project is currently investigating how faceted navigation and Linked Data can be combined to help Humanities scholars in working with digital text corpora. In this short paper we focus on the "Quaderni dal carcere" by Antonio Gramsci, one of the most popular Italian philosophers and politicians, we present our ongoing work and we discuss our approach. This consists of first building a RDF graph to encode different "levels" of knowledge about the texts and then extracting relevant graph paths to be used as navigation facets. We then built a first prototype exploration tool with a two-fold objective: a) allow non experts to make sense of the extremely fragmented and multidisciplinary text corpus, and b) allow Gramsci scholars to easily select a subset of the corpus of interest as well as possibly discovering new insights or answer research questions.
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