Here is a short summary of the links people pointed out to me:
1) The ECI corpus, obtainable at ELRA
(http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/cata/tabtext.html).
2) You can download Italian texts from the European Union web sites, as
many texts exist in all official EU languages. This is a bit tiresome, but
if you only need 200.000 words, you can do this in less than half an hour.
One possible site is: http://europa.eu.int/
3) For prose, you may find something at the Oxford Text Archive, but I do
not know their internet address. Maybe it is http://www.ox.ac.uk/...
These were suggested to me by Ralf Steinberger
There is another very cool link I found on Michael Barlow's HP:
Italian Literature, sorted by author, reports of the Italian Commission
against the Mafia Criminality, costitution, various thesis, etc. Just take
a look...
Further, Guy Aston sent me a collocation of TRA and FRA of the LIP corpus
(De Mauro et al. 1993)
Enjoy
cheers
Andrea
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