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- ↑ Encyclopedia Trecanni, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 60 (2003), by Maura Picciau.
- ↑ La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 141-142.
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