raFFiGuraziOni Del TeMPiO Della FOrTuna Di FanO nel xVi e xVii secOlO

Abstract

Local narrative sources and depictions from the 16th and
17th centuries attest to the establishment of the idea that the Temple
of Fortuna in Fano had an identifiable and unique structure
that acquired iconic repetitiveness over the centuries.
The traditions of the memory of the Basilica of Vitruvius
and the Temple of Fortuna, especially among the citizens of Fano,
present a totally different path.
At least until the sixteenth century - excluding the Arch of Augustus
- the peculiar classical structure of the city of Fano turns out
to be the structure of the Temple and not the one of the Basilica.
There is an immanent daily attestation of the first building -
the Temple - as it is connected to the city toponym Fanum, while
the existence of the Basilica is a “returned” scholarly memory,
subsequent to the printed publication of De architectura.
The presence of the Temple of Fortuna is iconographically
linked to the territory through some representations located in symbolic
sites of the city, for example on a bas-relief placed next to the
“Arch of Augustus” and frescoes painted in the chapels of the Cathedral
and in the Church of San Pietro in Valle.