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A Note on the Medieval Name of the So-Called ‘Temple of Fortuna Virilis’ at Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

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1 Muñoz, Antonio, Il Restauro del Tempio della Fortuna Virile (Rome 1925)Google Scholar.

2 The principal studies of the murals are by Lafontaine, Jacqueline, Peintures médiévales dans le temple dit de la Fortune Virile à Rome (Brussels 1959)Google Scholar, and Trimarchi, Michele, “Per una revisione iconografica del ciclo di affreschi nel Tempio della ‘Fortuna virile’”, Studi Medievali 19 (1978), 653–79Google Scholar. For the inscription see Huelsen, C., Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo (Florence 1927), 337Google Scholar, and Lafontaine, 12.

3 For example, Grabar, André, Les manuscrits grecs enluminés de provenance italienne (Paris 1972), 22–3Google Scholar, has assigned the controversial ninth-century manuscript of the Sacra Parallela (Paris, gr. 923) to an Italian scriptorium primarily on the basis of comparisons to these murals.

4 Huelsen, , Chiese di Roma, 338Google Scholar.

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6 Ibid., 307.

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10 Muñoz, , Restauro, 13Google Scholar; Lafontaine, 9.

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13 Ibid., 99–100.

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