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References
- Federico Fellini, Mario Guaraldi, Loris Pellegrini: la mia Rimini, 2003, p. 31
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 25.
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