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- ↑ Also rendered Partecipazio or Particiaco. His first name in English would be Justinian.
- ↑ Maur-François Dantine; Charles Clémencet; Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais; Ursin Durant; François Clément (1819). L'art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens monuments, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur. rue de la Vrillière, no. 10, pres̀ la banque; Valade, imprimeur du roi, rue Coquillière. p. 1.
- ↑ Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges. London : T. W. Laurie
- ↑ The Doges and the Basilica, St Mark's Basilica, Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine (basilicasanmarco.it) 22. December 2012
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