Poetry Dataset

Hundreds of poems written by the imaginary members of the academy have been manually transcribed and made available as plain text accompained by a JPG facsimile.

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Notes on transcriptions

We have tried to find a compromise between a purely diplomatic transcription and modern readability of the text. The following words and characters have been changed to modern Italian spelling:

Character	Modernized version	Notes
à	a	It has been kept only for words with final tonic accent on a, such as "podestà"
ò / o	oh	Modernization of exclamation in order to differentiate it from conjunction
ß	ss	Modernization of esszett
æ	ae
ſ	s	Modernization of long s
u	v	Modernization of Latin u for words such as "Gioue" (Giove) or "uuole" (vuole)
perche	perché
poi che	poiché
pur che	purché
ò pur	oppur
cosi / si	così / sì
sù la	sulla
fà	fa
fù	fu
piu	più
virtu	virtù
vò	vo	The first person of the verb "andare" does not need any accent or apostrophe in modern italian
cio	ciò
ã	an	Expliciting tilda abbreviation
õ	on	Expliciting tilda abbreviation
ẽ	en	Expliciting tilda abbreviation
anchora	àncora	Differentiating the words for "anchor" (àncora) and "still" (ancora)

We have kept double consonants in the original spelling, such as "essempi". Likewise original spellings with a single consonant have not been doubled.