Abstract
Following a suggestion in a footnote of the paper [Citation1] by Fano, we give a direct proof of the fact that one of the two Fano threefolds of degree 72 in is isomorphic to the anticanonically embedded weighted projective space .
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Acknowledgments
The author is a member of GNSAGA of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica “F. Severi”. The author wants to thank Yuri Prokhorov for useful e-mail exchanges of ideas on the topic of this note.