Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

words removed
141,129
marks left
17,786
words a sentence
38.8
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides. More twins

Niccolò Machiavelli on the shelf

2 books by Niccolò Machiavelli are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Niccolò Machiavelli's punctuation is closest to Thucydides's.

Niccolò Machiavelli's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookNiccolò Machiavelli's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.410.07.2
Commas84.182.576.6
Colons0.71.41.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.10.23.7
Words per sentence38.837.417.0
Dialogue2%3%22%
  • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius1531
  • The Prince1532

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