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- Glover, Jane (1975). The Teatro Sant'Apollinare and the Development of Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera, dissertation. University of Oxford. OCLC 32310246.
- Mancini, Franco; Muraro, Maria Teresa; Povoledo, Elena (1995). I Teatri di Venezia: Tomo I. Teatri effimeri e nobili imprenditori [The Theatres of Venice: Volume I. Ephemeral Theatres and Noble Entrepreneurs] (in Italian). Venice: Corbo e Fiore. OCLC 43806884.
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