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- ↑ Also see description in La Sapienza ispirata dalla religione: pitture nella sala degli esperimenti nel Collegio delle Scuole Pie Fiorentine, by Numa Pompilio Tanzini, published 1838.
- ↑ Saltini, Guglielmo Enrico (1862). Le Arti Belle in Toscana da mezzo il Secolo XVIII ai di Nostri (book). Florence, Italy: Tipografia Le Monnier. p. 58.
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