The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

words removed
219,405
marks left
51,280
words a sentence
13.4
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

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T. Rice Holmes's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons7.27.6
Commas89.578.1
Colons2.01.8
Exclamation marks0.32.0
Question marks0.52.8
Words per sentence13.417.7
Dialogue19%18%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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