Methodology of diachronic analysis of old prints and its validation by tracing the changing meaning of key concepts in the intellectual debate of 16th century Italy

This dataset in corpus.zip file contains OCR texts for 16th century Italian books available from BNF (folder gallica) and archive.org (folder internetarchive). Source URL is given in 1st line of each text file. The pages within each document may come in order different than in the source, however, the order of lines in each page is preserved. The archive is protected with password, which will be made public immediately after the publication of the related research paper under the same title.

Samples of three documents along with images of their initial pages are provided at the current time.