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- ↑ Some sources, like the Treccani dictionary, indicate 1743 as the first year of publication. The oldest edition today, conserved in the historical archive of the Fondazione Barbanera 1762, is a single sheet printed in Foligno by Pompeo Campana and dated 1762, which reports the calendar of that year and an initial prediction signed by Barbanera, already known as "famous", as highlighted by Ivo Picchiarelli in the essay The first steps in an Italian tradition. I primi passi di una tradizione italiana. The oldest Barbanera almanacs folio, in the Fondazione Barbanera 1762 (by), Barbanera 1762, Editoriale Campi, Spello, 2012, p. 72.
- ↑ For a brief history and description of the Barbanera almanac and calendar, see the mentioned Barbanera 1762, published by Editoriale Campi in 2012.
- ↑ See the letter from Gabriele D'Annunzio to Don G. Fava dated 24 February 1934 quoted in Attilio Mazza, D'Annunzio e l'occulto, Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome, 1995, p. 29. The letter is conserved in the archive of Fondazione Vittoriale degli Italiani (Personal Archive, c. 31817).
- ↑ The Memory of the World Register has included the collection of 356 Barbanera almanacs from 1762 to 1962 among its documents, which are conserved at the Fondazione Barbanera 1762 in Spello, Umbria. See also the bibliographical opac www.bibliotecabarbanera.it (last visit on 3/12/2016) and the Barbanera digital library to browse the almanacs protected by UNESCO (last visit on 26/11/2019).
- ↑ See the Unesco, Memory of the World Programme website (last visit on 3/12/2016).