biblioteca_italiana

This corpus is a subset in XML TEI format of the available poems in the poetry corpus from the Biblioteca Italiana

It contains more than 18000 works from over 159 authors

XML folder statistics

• Authors: 214
• Works: 25341
• Verses: 1070717
• Words: 7121246
• Characters: 38095393

The file biblitaliana.zip contains the compressed JSON corpus. The format of each entry is as follows:

{
    "url": "https://github.com/linhd-postdata/biblioteca_italiana/blob/master/xml/bibit000213",
    "author": "Dante Alighieri",
    "collection": "Il Fiore",
    "title": "I",
    "manually_checked": false,
    "text": [
        [
            {
                "verse": "Lo Dio d'Amor con su' arco mi trasse",
                "words": [
                    "Lo",
                    "Dio",
                    "d'Amor",
                    "con",
                    "su'",
                    "arco",
                    "mi",
                    "trasse"
                ]
            },
            ...
        ],
        ...
    ]
},
...

Folder json contains the works by author, and xml contains the XML TEI version of the text.

The script biblioteca_italiana.py was used to build the json files.