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"On a Design by San Gallo." Mask Magazine. 1925 151-160

Ault, Thomas. "Architecture in the Baroque Age of Theatre."Theatre Design and Technology, 1992, Winter. 17-30.

Ault, Thomas. "Baroque Stage Machines for Venus and Mars from the Archivio di Stato, Parma." Theatre Survey, Nov. 1987. 27-39.

Ault, Thomas. "Il Taccuino: The Design Notebook of Nicolo Sabattini da Pesaro." Theatre Design and Technology, 2002, Fall. 23-29.

Battistelli, Franco, and Milesi, Francesco. Il Palazzo del Teatro: Storia e immagini. Fano: Comune di Fano, 1990

Beijer, Ange. "Un Maquette de Décor Récemment Retrouvée pour le 'Ballet de la Prospérité des Armes de France' dansé a Paris, le 7 Février 1641" Le Lieu Théâtral a la Renaissnace, ed Jean Jacquot. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1964, 377-404.

Beijer, Ange. Court Theatres of Drottningholm and Gripsholm. New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972

Bergman, Gösta M. Lighting in the Theatre. Totowa: New Jersey, 1977

Bjurström, Per. Giacomo Torelli and Baroque Stage Design. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1962.

Bjurström, Per. "Unveröffentlichtes von Nicodemus Tessin d.J." Kleine Schriften der Gesellschraft für Theatergeschichte, Vol. 21, 14-41.

Blumenthal, Arthur R. Giulio Parigi's Designs: Florence and the Early Baroque Spectacle. Volumes I and II. New York: Garland Publishers, 1986.

Carrick, Edward. "Theatre Machines in Italy,1400-1800." Architectural Review, 1931.

Day, Christine J. "The Theater of SS. Giovanni e Paolo and Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea." Current Musicology, v. 25, 1978, 22-37.

Dubreuil, Le P. Jean. La Perspective pratique par aun Parisien de la Compagnie de Jésus, Book III, Paris, 1642-49.

Fara, Amelio. Bernardo Buontalenti. Milan: Electra, 1995.

Foakes, R. A. Illustrations of the English Stage, 1580-1642. Stanford: Stanford University Press,1985.

Hewitt, Bernard. The Renaissance Stage. Miami: University of Miami Press, 1958.

Larson, Orville K. "Giacomo Torelli, Sir Philip Skippon, and Stage Machinery for the Venetian Opera." Theatre Journal 32, No. 4 (Dec. 1980. 448-457.

Larson, Orville K. The Theatrical Writings of Fabrizio Carini Motta. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Lawrenson, T. E. The French Stage and Playhouse in the XVIIth Century. New York: AMS Press, 1986.

Molinari, Cesare. "Disegni a Parma per uno spettaclo Veneziano," Critica d'Arte 70 (1965), 47-64.

Mohler, Frank. "A Brief Shining Moment: An Effect That Disappeared From The Illustionistic Stage." Theatre Symposium 4, 1996, 83-90.

Mohler, Frank. "Computer Modeling As A Tool For The Reconstruction Of Historic Theatrical Production Techniques," Theatre Journal 51, 1999, 417-431.

Mohler, Frank and Pavla Peskova, The Castle Theatre at Minichovo Hradiste, Prague: Narodni Pamatkovy Ustav, 2004.

Mohler, Frank and Jiri Blaha, "The Chateau Theatre in Litomysl and the Scenery of Josef Platzer," Theatre Design and Technology 40, Fall 2004, 24-31.

Mohler, Frank. "The Court Theatre at Mnichovo Hradiste: The Groove System Survives on the Continent," Theatre Design and Technology 39, Winter 2003, 58-58.

Mohler, Frank. "Survival Of The Mechanized Flat Wing Scene Change: Court Theatres of Gripsholm, Cesky Krumlov and Drottningholm," Theatre Design and Technology 35, Winter 1999, 46-56.

Mohler, Frank. "The Variety of Spectacular Machinery Used in the Production of Baroque Theatre," The World of Baroque Theatre: A compilation of Essays from the Cesky Krumlov Conferences 2002, 2003 .   Cesky Krumlov: Cesky Krumlov Theatre Foundation, 2004, 25-41.

Nagler, A. M. Theatre Festivals of the Medici, 1539-1637. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Orrell, John. The Theatre of Inigo Jones and John Webb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Orgel, Stephen, & Strong, Roy. Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court. Volumes I & II. Berkley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973.

Pirrotta, Nino and Povoledo, Elena. Music and Theatre From Poliziano to Monteverdi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Sabbatini. Nicolo. Pratica di Fabricar Scene e Machine ne' Teatri, ed. Elena Povoledo. Rome: Carlo Bestetti, Edizioni D.arte.

Saslow, James M. The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Teatrum Mundi. New Haven: Yale University Press,1996.

Jiacomo Barozzi da Vignola. Le Due Regole Della Prospettiva Paractica, ed. I. Danti. Alburgh: Archival Facsimiles Limited, 1987.

Microfilm. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University

OSU 1533 - Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Tessin-Hårleman Vol S3

OSU 1649 - Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Tessin-Hårleman Vol S4

OSU 1703 - Bibliothéque de l'Opera, Paris, Res 853

OSU 2048 - Biblioteca Palatina, Parma, MS 3708

OSU 2086 - Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Tessin-Hårleman Vol S5

OSU 2404 - Archivio di Stato, Parma, Mappe e disegni, vol. 4

OSU 2425 - Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Tessin-Hårleman,Vol S7

OSU 2634* - Archives nationales, Paris, vol. 01.3238-42

OSU 2653 - Biblioteca Oliveriani, Pesaro, MS Oliveriani 312

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