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- ↑ Pistoia e il suo territorio: Pescia e i suoi dintorni: guida del forestiero, by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 286.
- ↑ Le dimore di Pistoia e della Valdinievole, article by Emanuelle Barletti, edited by Emilia Daniele, Associazione dimore storiche italiane. Sezione Toscana, Editrice Alinea, Florence (2004): page 47.
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