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- ↑ A regola d'arte: monumenti future: pittori, scultori, architetti, fotografi, scenografi, ceramisti, galleristi, critici, e storici d'arte nel Modenese dell'ottocento e del novecento, by Alberto Barbieri, Muchi editore (2008): page 320.