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- ↑ Arnaldo Morelli, Il tempio armonico. Musica nell'oratorio dei Filippini in Roma (1575-1705), Laaber, 1991, p. 191.
- ↑ Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Notitia de' contrapuntisti e compositori di musica, ed. by Cesarino Ruini, Florence, 1988, p. 343
- ↑ Giancarlo Rostirolla, Il "Mondo novo" musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi, Milan, 2001, pp. 80, 269-270.
