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- ↑ "'Sartorio, Gasparo 1625 or 1626-1680', WorldCat Identities".
- ↑ Edward H. Tarr and Norbert Dubowy, Sartorio [Sertorio], Antonio (opera). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904642. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ↑ "Gasparo Sartorio". 25 March 2013.
- ↑ Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon, Teaches Musicology Jonathan Glixon, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807, Oxford University Press, 2003, page 181
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