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- ↑ Cited in Italian wikipedia entry: Gaspero Righini Mugello e Val di Sieve, note e memorie storico-artistico-letterarie, Firenze, Tipografia Pierazzi, 10 October 1956.
- ↑ Encyclopedia Treccani entry.
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