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- 1 2 3 Leah Marcus (ed), The Duchess of Malfi, Bloomsbury, pp.17ff.
- 1 2 Giacomo Della Morte, Cronica di Napoli di Notar Giacomo; pubblicata per cura di Paolo Garzilli, Napoli: Stamperia Reale, 1845, pp. 331
- ↑ Scipione Ammirato, Delle famiglie nobili napoletane di Scipione Ammirato parte prima, le quali per leuar'ogni gara di precedenza sono state poste in confuso, In Fiorenza: appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1580, II, pp. 49-50.
- 1 2 Felicita De Negri, «DI BOLOGNA, Antonio». In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Vol. IX, Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1968.
- ↑ Charles R. Forker, Skull beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL., 1986, p.115.
- ↑ Matteo Camera, Memorie storico-diplomatiche dell'antica città e Ducato di Amalfi: cronologicamente ordinate e continuate sino al secolo XVIII, Salerno: Stabilimento Tipografico Nazionale, 1876, pp. 81-82.
