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- ↑ Peebles, Kelly Digby, ed. (2014). Jeanne Flore, Tales and Trials of Love, Concerning Venus's Punishment of Those Who Scorn True Love and Denounce Cupid's Sovereignty, A Bilingual Edition and Study. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. ISBN 978-0-7727-2166-2.
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