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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Alberto Magnani, "Gundeperga, una regina longobarda a Pavia", "Bollettino della Società Pavese di Storia Patria", CIV/2004.
- ↑ Peters, Edward (2003). History of the Lombards: Translated by William Dudley Foulke. University of Pennsylvania Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Majocchi, Piero. "The politics of memory of the Lombard monarchy in Pavia, the kingdom's capital". Materializing Memory. Archaeological material culture and the semantics of the past. Retrieved 29 July 2022.