(1) L.C. Stanton, "Indentured Servants at Monticello" (unpublished research paper prepared for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2005).
(2) "Antonio Giannini and Maria Modena Giannini: A Brief Introduction to the First Members of Our Family in America," accessed 18 October 2006
(3) O. Allan Gianniny and Robert Lewis Giannini, The Giannini's of Virginia , 3rd ed. (Charlottesville, Virginia: n.p., 1999)(see http://www.gianninifamily.harding-giannini.com/Gianninisbook.htm).
(4) Personal Property Tax Lists of Albemarle County, Virginia, Microfilm 2024443, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
(5) Charles Bellini and Thomas Jefferson, “Charles Bellini, First Professor of Modern Languages in an American College,†William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan 1925): 12, quoting letter from Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bellini, 26 April 1799.
(6) Glenn Weaver, The Italian Presence in Colonial Virginia (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1988), 58-64, quoting Michael A. Musmanno, The Story of the Italians in America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., 1965), 11; also quoting "Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith, Containing a full and faithful Account of Monticello and the Family there..." Slave Memoir of Isaac Jefferson dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840s, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., VIII (Oct 1951): 569, 573, 581; also quoting Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, June 25, 1793, in Andrew A. Lipscomb, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 vols. (Washington: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903), I, ix; also quoting Boyd, Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, April 4, 1780, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, III, 342; also quoting A.F. Guidi, "Washington and the Italians," 34; also quoting P. Mazzei, Memoirs, 187; also quoting Edgar Wood, Albemarle County in Virginia (Charlotteville: Michie Company, 1901), 360