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- ↑ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 649.
- ↑ Giovanni Giacinto Vogli, il medico budriese studiato dal Galvani, article by Leonardo Arrighi in BudrioNext, 12 November 2015.
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