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- ↑ Gioseffantonio Morano, Catalogo degli illustri scrittori di Casale: e di tutto il ducato di Monferrato e delle opere da' medesimi composte, e date alla luce (Asti: Stamperia del Pila, 1771), p. 19.
- ↑ Tommaso Vallauri, Storia della poesia in Piemonte, 2 vols (Turin: Tipografia Chirio e Mina, 1841) I, p. 259, notes that her poetry was published sparsamente: ‘in a scattered manner’, or ‘in various places’.
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