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- ↑ Green, Lawrence D.; Murphy, James Jerome (2006). Renaissance Rhetoric Short-title Catalogue 1460-1700. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-7546-0509-6 . Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Wade, Mara R. (2005). Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature Before 1700. Rodopi. p. 188. ISBN 978-90-420-1686-6 . Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Duffy, Eve M.; Metcalf, Alida C. (6 December 2011). The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World. JHU Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-4214-0421-9 . Retrieved 27 October 2012.
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