Presentation on Tuesday 7 May at the Antonelliana Library for the new monograph by Ettore Baldetti
Tuesday 7 May at 5.15 pm at the “Antonelliana” Library of Senigallia the new monograph by will be presented Ettore Baldettideputy of the Deputation of Homeland History for the Marche, “Hypothesis on the original Via Flaminia to Ancona and Sena (Senigallia)”with the intervention of the author and the introduction of Marco Pettinaripresident of“Sena Nova” Associationwhich organizes the event in collaboration with the“Augusto Bellanca” Association.
The study intends demonstrate that the Via Flaminiainaugurated by the consul and censor Gaius Flaminius between 223 and 220 with the aim of providing a rapid military connection between Rome and the Gallic-Po Valley enemy front, i.e. with the Adriatic coast and Rimini, it didn’t get there via the Metauro valley, but via Ancona and Sena (Senigallia)traveling from Nuceria (Nocera Umbra) along the Potenza valley and the coastal road.
This theory was already advanced by the German scholar Gerhard Radke in 1971, who however made the artery pass through Camers (Camerino), while he believed that the route, through the threatening Furlo gorge, had subsequently been inaugurated by the consul Tiberio Sempronius Gracco in 177 BC. C. – hence the name of Forum Sempronii, today’s Fossombrone -, that is “forum or market of Sempronio” and then renovated by Augustus.
The oldest mention of the street is in Cicero’s Philippics –“I could avoid the Cassia and take the Flaminia. But if, as they say, Ventidio has already arrived in Ancona, will I be able to get to Rimini in complete safety?”in which the statesman, between 44 and 43, having to reach Rimini and avoid meeting Ventidius, associates the Flaminia explicitly with Ancona.
L’Itinerarium provincialum Antonini Augusti (310.5-312.6), a road record of the Roman Empire, reports the following passage: “…the Flaminia. From Rome to Ancona, through the Piceno area, and then to Brindisi”. The stages between Nuceriae (Nocera Umbra) and Ancona follow: Dubios, near today’s Bivio Ercole, Prolaque (Pioraco), Septempeda (S. Severino Marche), Trea (Treia) and Auximum (Osimo), that is precisely that Prolaquense- Settempedana here referred to as probable stretch of the original Via Flaminia. Furthermore, in the same text the path of the Flaminia of the imperial age, for Spoleto, Fossombrone and Fano.
The original road forums were road centers located approximately in the middle of the route implemented by the magistrate referred to in the relevant name of the forum. The original Roman road network normally reached the bordering cities, touching the intermediate strongholds, especially coastal onesin this case the important thing port of Ancona and Sena (Senigallia), the first Roman colony in the Marche-Romagna area. Forum Flaminii, now San Giovanni Profiamma near Foligno, is far away 166 km from Rome and 164 from Senigallia. The milestones, placed later, are not always fundamental evidence on the relative routes: for example the two milestones found near Corinaldo and near Sassoferrato are more in agreement with two distinct routes to Rome of the imperial age. Subsequent documentation solves the mystery, where it reports in the Marche-Romagna area greater attestations referring to the Flaminia, for the coastal or paracoastal area of the central Marchelike today’s Flaminia between Ancona and Falconara Marittima, resulting almost absent north of Fano.
In the contribution it was also identified, in a road epigraph preserved in Barbarathe dedication to the Pompeian duovir Publius Aninius, supporter of the monumental Stabian Baths and follower of Sulla in the ranks led by Gnaeus Pompey, originally from Piceno.
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