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- ↑ Frank A. D'Accone, Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, Colleen Reardon. Música franca: essays in honor of Frank A. D'Accone, Pendragon Press, 1996, pg 283
- ↑ The Cambridge companion to Rossini , Part 7, By Emanuele Senici, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pg. ix
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