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OperaGlass page (cached) [Complete Score of L' Ercole Trionfante by D. B. Sabadini/ G.A. Boretti/ A. Aureli based on the Piacenza 1688 Libretto in : "Civiltà Musicale Farnesiana"-IInd issue, 2021, 840 pp.]
