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- ↑ Robert Wallace, Sketches of the lives and writings of distinguished antitrinitarians
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- ↑ Leandro Perini La vita e i tempi di Pietro Perna
- ↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda, Index de Rome 1590, 1593, 1596: avec étude des index de Parme 1580 ..., Volume 9 "Christian Francken est condamné comme auteur supra, Munchen, 1582"
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