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Notes
- ↑ Though the Amadeus Alamanc refers to the opera as a dramma giocoso.
- ↑ Rice, John A, La Folia in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Vienna
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- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "La pastorella nobile" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Rice, John A (1992), "Pastorella nobile, La" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Rice, John A, "La Folia" in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Vienna