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- 1 2 3 The Journal of the Lute Society, Volumes 35 à 39, Lute Society, 1997 (p. 189).
- 1 2 Claudia Knispel, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Lautenistinnen und Gitaristinnen der Renaissance und des Barock, Kassel University Press, 2014, p. 79.
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- ↑ Mémoire vive - Patrimoine numérisé de Besançon
- ↑ Catalogue de la bibliothèque du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
- ↑ (in Spanish) Fuentes barroco
