The English Corpus for the LBC project

The texts collected so far in the LBC English corpus shed new light on the cultural relevance of Vasari's Lives, which was selected as a key point of reference for the whole LBC project. Of course, the English literary sub-corpus was not created with a specific conceptual framework in mind. Currently, however, it does show much internal coherence, in that most of its texts are connected to one another at various levels, interlinking web-like and extending outward primarily from Vasari’s book. In this Introduction, I propose to describe this rather unexpected web of connections by following its main threads and knots.