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- ↑ an autograph "messa a tre voci 2 TT. e B. con V.V. si placet" in the Girolamini Library is dated 1715.
- ↑ A large amount of manuscript sacred music by Nola is held in the Girolamini Library
- ↑ Fabris 2007, p. 102.
- ↑ Fabris 2007, p. 108.
