This postcard is a photographic reproduction of an 1883 painting by Russian Romantic artist Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900) showing Dante on a mountain pointing skyward. The card has a caption in Russian: "И.К. АЙВАЗОВСКІЙ – ДАНТЕ АЮБУЕТСЯ ОБЯАКАМН." (I.K. Aivazovsky – Dante admires the clouds). The card was postmarked on February 24, 1907, carries a message written in Esperanto, and is addressed to a recipient in Turin, Italy.]]> This postcard features an illustration (Il saluto di Beatrice) by A. del Senno of Beatric greeting Dante. On the verso, the card has a quotation in Italian from Dante's Vita nuova (3:1): "'...E passando per una via volse gli occhi verso quella parte ove io era molto pauroso e... mi salutò virtuosamente tanto'." (And passing along a street, she turned her eyes toward where I stood timidly and ... she greeted me so miraculously).

The card is stamped with the 10-lire Vatican City postage stamp of 1965 and was postmarked in Vatican City on September 18, 1965.

]]> Dante e Beatrice) by Olivotto of Beatrice greeting Dante with the city of Florence in the the distance.]]> Purgatorio 7:17. On the back of the envelope is a rubber stamped version of the same logo. This particular envelope was postmarked on March 26, 1915, in Turin and sent to Giovanni Faldella, an Italian senator.]]> Divina commedia). The envelope was designed and illustrated by O. Pryadkin and printed at Goznak's Ryazhskaya Printing Factory.]]>