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This miniature sheet shows Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. Printed by Sanfer S.R.L. (Montevideo, Uruguay).

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This stamp issued by Uruguay features a design by Daniel Pereyra of Dante and Virgil watching Charon in his boat on the River Acheron from Inferno 3:82–84. The stamp has "700 AÑOS DE DANTE" (700 years of Dante) at the top and "$75 URUGUAY" at the…

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Portrait of Dante by Sergo Kobuladze, 1950.

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Cancellation featuring portrait of Dante from Marcello Toninelli's comic strip version of the Divina commedia. Celebrates Cartoon Club Rimini – 37th Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Animazione, del Fumetto e dei Games (International Festival of…

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Designed by Thomas Giger. Printed by Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem, Netherlands.

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This stamp was issued by Vatican City to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. The stamp, designed by Gabriele Dell'Otto, shows Saint Peter and Dante from Paradiso 24 and has text as follows: in the top right corner: "Dante Alighieri /…

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This set of three stamps issued by Italy commemorates the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. Poste Italiane describes the stamps as follows: Inferno: "[P]articolare di un'opera del pittore Corrado Veneziano dal titolo 'L'Inferno, evocando…

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Place of cancellation: Torino, Italy, 10121

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Liechtenstein issued a set of two stamps to honor Dante. Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé of Haarlem, Netherlands, printed the stamps using the steel engraving process to reproduce the original pen and ink drawings of Swiss designer Thomas Giger. One stamp…

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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta—recognized as a stamp-issuing body by the Sassone catalog—was the first entity to issue Dante stamps in 2021. The first stamp shows an anonymous illustration of Mount Purgatory found in a fifteenth-century…

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The Republic of San Marino issued three stamps designed by Davide Pagliardini in a print run of 30,000. The stamps feature quotations from Dante's Inferno: "Amor ch'a nullo amato amar perdona" (Love, which pardons no one loved from loving in return),…

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Place of cancellation: San Marino, San Marino

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Vatican City issued this miniature sheet to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Dante is depicted in the fresco in the lower right quarter (circled here in green). The miniature sheet has text as…

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Togo issued this stamp as part of a set commemorating the 545th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth. The stamp reproduces his fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Dante is barely visible in the upper right quarter (circled here in green).…

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Mozambique issued this stamp as part of a set celebrating the artwork of Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky. The stamp reproduces his painting Dante Shows an Artist Some Unusual Clouds. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "IVAN AIVAZOVSKY…

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This miniature sheet shows Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Dante is barely visible in the upper right quarter (circled here in green). The stamp on the sheet is a detail from the same fresco showing Christ and Mary. The…

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This cinderella stamp was issued with seven others as part of a miniature sheet fraudulently attributed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While the sheet is titled "Michelangelo" only a few of the artworks on the sheet are his. This stamp…

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This miniature sheet shows Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Dante is barely visible in the upper right quarter (circled here in green). The sheet was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.

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This poster stamp was issued by Gaston Fontanille under the pseudonym "Delandre." Fontanille used a variety of pseudonyms to produce almost countless cinderella and poster stamps, books, catalogs, posters, and other materials—sometimes under…

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This poster stamp has the initials "SI" (possibly for "Società italiana"?) in blue centered among portraits of four Italian authors in red: Dante Alighieri, Lodovico Ariosto, Luigi Pirandello, and Alessandro Manzoni. The portrait of Dante is based on…

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This poster stamp was issued by the Austrian branch of French cigarette rolling paper company Abadie, probably in the 1930s, and is part of a series of stamps depicting poets. The Viennese factory, Abadie Papiergesellschaft A.G., opened in 1909 and…

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This poster stamp is number 10 in a series depicting landmarks and views of Trent. The stamp depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in that city and has text as follows: at the top: "Serie Trient." (Trent series); at the bottom:…

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This series of poster stamps was issued by the Società Dante Alighieri, probably in the 1910s. The stamps depict a woman reading a book to a group of children, a father and son, and mother with baby. Behind the group is a bust of Dante, a book, and…
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