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This nicely formulated paper (posthumus by Marco Reni, to whom it is dedicated) gives a survey and an improvement to \textit{M. Reni} and \textit{B. Zimmermann} [Geom. Dedicata 74, No. 1, 23-35 (1999; Zbl 0916.57002)] in the case of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots. The following statement is proved: Theorem 1.2. Let \(n\geq 5\) and \(M= M_n(K)\) be a (hyperbolic) \(n\)-fold cyclic branched covering of a hyperbolic 2-bridge knot \(K\). Let \(v= \text{vol}(S^3\setminus K)\) and \(v_n\) be the volume of the smallest orientable hyperbolic 3-orbifold with torsion of order \(n\). If \(n\geq \sqrt{v/(4v_n)}+ 1\), then \(M\) has no hidden symmetries. We say that \(M_n(K)\) has no hidden symmetries (with respect to the given branched covering) if every isometry of \(M_n(K)\) is the lift of some isometry of the orbifold \(\sigma_n(K)\) with singular set \(K\) of singularity index \(n\). The corollary Theorem 4 gives more exact information.