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The Prince

Plaintext for Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"

(45617 words/258412 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Prince"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["The Prince"], "Paragraph"][[20]]
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Visualization

Show the distribution of sentence lengths:

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With[{sentences = TextSentences[ResourceData["The Prince"]]}, Histogram[(Length /@ (TextWords /@ sentences)), PlotRange -> Full]]
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Show the most frequently used adjectives:

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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[TextCases[ResourceData["The Prince"], "Adjective"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Prince" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.47573.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: The Prince
  • Creator: Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Date: May 1900
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research