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- ↑ Papal Genealogy: The Families And Descendants Of The Popes by George L. Williams, McFarland, 2004 (p 224)
- ↑ Caravaggio's Taking of Christ by Francesca Cappelletti
- ↑ Berkshire Review: Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Giove
- 1 2 Fountains, statues, and flowers: studies in Italian gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Elisabeth B. MacDougall (1994)
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