Comment 2 for bug 1591149

Looks like it's not easy to find contemporary texts accompanied by a permissive license. The site liberliber.it has many free contemporary books, by the are all distributed under the CC-BY-NC-SA, and the NC (Non Commercial) bit is a bit problematic here.
To play safe, better use books from project Gutenberg; I would go for romances, because they are likely to contain both dialogues and narrative text. Here's a list:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/IT_Romanzi_%28Biblioteca%29

They are all a bit oldish, but we can pick something from the beginning of last century, at least.

A few options:

- Il perduto amore, 1921
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41281

- I sogni dell'anarchico, 1922
  http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25175/pg25175.txt

- I divoratori, 1922
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34983.txt.utf-8

In other categories, other suitable books:

- Fuochi di bivacco, 1913
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49223/49223-0.txt
  (I like this because it's mostly in the present tense)

- La favorita del Mahdi, 1911
  http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25180/pg25180.txt
  (by Emilio Salgari!)

Any opinions on which one we should pick?

Whatever the choice, I think I'll give the chosen book a pass with sed and replace s/egli/lui/, s/ella/lei/, s/de'/dei/, and similar ones.