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- ↑ "Vellutello, Alessandro in "Enciclopedia Dantesca"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ↑ Eitel-Porter, Rhoda (March 2019). "Drawings for the Woodcut Illustrations to Alessandro Vellutello's 1544 Commentary on Dante's Comedia". Print Quarterly. 36: 3–16.
