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- ↑ Guida del forestiere per la città e contado di Lucca, by Tommaso Trenta, (Re-edited by Marchese Antonio Mazzarosa). Presso Jacopo Balatresi, Lucca (1821); page 200-201.
- ↑ Tourism portal of Capannori.
- ↑ Villas and Palaces of Lucca official site.