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- ↑ Eleanor Selfridge-Field Venetian Instrumental Music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi – 1994, page 29 "One of the most respected maestri seems to have been the Anconitan priest Giacomo Finetti, appointed in 1613. Finetti died in the plague of 1630 and was succeeded by a monk named Carlo [da] Pesaro, who was paid a salary of ninety .."
