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- ↑ (in Italian) "Un maestro di musica a Veneaia: Lodovico Fuga (1643-1722)" in Antonio Vivaldi: Teatro musicale, cultura e societa. ed. Lorenzo Bianconi and Giovanni Morelli, 547-78. Quaderni vivaldiani 2. Florence: Olschki, 1982
- ↑ Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon, Teaches Musicology Jonathan Glixon, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807, Oxford University Press, 2003, page 181
- ↑ Dubowy, Norbert (2000). "Bemerkungen zur Kirchenmusik von Antonio Lotti". Händel-Jahrbuch . 46: 85–99.
- ↑ (in Italian) Federico Maria Sardelli, 'Le Opere Giovanili di Antonio Vivaldi', in Michael Talbot (editor), Vivaldi, Routledge, 2017, p314-315
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