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+**Italian-PD** is a large corpus of Italian books in the public domain, totalling 11,400,353,695 words (150,359 titles).
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+The documents comes from a variety of sources, especially Internet Archive. 
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+To limit right verification, we have only retained publications prior to 1884. The corpus will be expanded at a later stage to encompass late 19th century and early 20th century publications, after checking for public domain validity.
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