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- ↑ Giovanni Antonio Caldelli by Elfi Rüsch, Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS), 3 April 2003.
- ↑ Dizionario storico raggionato degli uomini illustri del canton Ticino, by Gian Alfonso Oldelli, (1807), page 50.
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