Inferno) and 34 members of the Centro italiano di filatelia tematica exhibited their collections of stamps illustrating each canto of the Inferno (part of the Progetto Dante). The exhibition was a collaboration of the local philatelic circle, Circolo culturale filatelico numismatico "Ennio Giunchi", and the national thematic organization, Centro italiano di filatelia tematica. The painting depicted on the card and on the cancellation shows Dante with the faces of souls in hell and is the work of Patrizio Virzì, an artist from Cesena, Italy. The painting is titled L'Inferno di Dante. The card is stamped with the 2009 Italian stamp from the Italy-San Marino-Vatican City joint issue.]]> Romagna Noi, October 24, 2011, http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/cultura-eventi/723331/L-inferno-diventa-un-francobollo.html (accessed August 18, 2013).]]> This maximum card was issued by the philatelic group Círculo Filatélico de Liniers and postmarked in Buenos Aires on September 16, 1965. The card features Gustave Doré's portrait of Dante. Below the portrait is a detail from Doré's illustration for Purgatorio 2:43-44 depicting Dante and Virgil watching as a "heavenly pilot" guides his boat toward them as they stand on the shore. A banner proclaims "SEPTIMO CENTENARIO" (seventh centenary) in reference to the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth.]]> This maximum card was issued by Colorano (Series 1965, no. 5) and postmarked in San Francisco on July 17, 1965. The card mimics the 1965 United States postage stamp designed by American painter Douglas Gorsline.]]> This maximum card, postmarked in February 1967, commemorates the 1966 Uruguay postage stamp honoring Dante. The card's portrait of Dante is a reversed detail from Luca Signorelli's painting in the cathedral of Orvieto, Italy.]]> This series of maximum cards was issued by Stampa Filatelica (Golden Series, no. 104–107; series supervised by Vittorio Lo Bianco) for the Vatican City postage stamps of 1965. The first card (no. 104), like the stamp, shows Raphael's portrait of Dante from his fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The second and third cards (no. 105–106) show scenes taken from miniatures in Codex Urbinate Latino 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. No. 105 shows a scene from the beginning of Inferno in which Dante (accompanied by Virgil in this illustration but not in the text) is blocked by three beasts. No. 106 is fromPurgatorio and shows Dante and Virgil at the foot of Mount Purgatory. The fourth card (no. 107) echoes the stamp and shows Sandro Botticelli's illustration from Paradiso 3 of Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of the moon. The original illustration is found in a manuscript volume in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin known as MS Hamilton 201. Each card was postmarked in Vatican City on May 18, 1965.]]> This series of maximum cards was issued by KimCover (KimCover Art Gallery of Vatican Stamps, no. 36–39) for the Vatican City postage stamps of 1965. Each card reproduces its respective stamp within a decorative frame. At the top of each frame is "DANTE ALIGHIERI" and the coat of arms of Pope Paul VI; below each frame is "MCCLXV - MCMLXV". The first card (no. 36) shows Raphael's portrait of Dante from his fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The second, third, and fourth cards (no. 37–39) are based on Sandro Botticelli's illustrations to the Divina commedia found in a manuscript volume in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin known as MS Hamilton 201 and a manuscript in the Vatican Library known as Cod. Reg. Lat. 1896. The illustrations are as follows: Dante encounters a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf (no. 37; Inferno 1; Cod. Reg. Lat. 1896), Dante and Virgil at the foot of Mount Purgatory (no. 38; Purgatorio 3; MS Hamilton 201), and Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of the moon (no. 39; Paradiso 3; MS Hamilton 201). Each card was postmarked in Vatican City on May 18, 1965.]]> o 769 Italia". The card features a black and white photograph of the Naples Bust of Dante, the 1990 Italy postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the Società Dante Alighieri, and a cancellation from Verona showing the city's Basilica di San Zeno.]]> This maximum card features a black and white photograph of Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, the 1971 Germany postage stamp commemorating the 650th anniversary of Dante's death (which also shows the same portrait by Raphael), and a cancellation from Bonn showing Dante.]]> This maximum card was issued by Lupita and postmarked in Buenos Aires on September 16, 1965. The cachet features a black and white left-facing portrait of Dante, a quill pen, and three books with titles in Spanish: "LA / DIVINA COMEDIA" (Divine Comedy), "LIRICAS" (Poems), and "DE LA MONARQUIA" (On Monarchy). Above the image is "DANTE ALIGHIERI", to the left, vertically, is "Tarjeta primer día / First day card", and below is "Genial Poeta Florentino - 1265/1321" (great Florentine poet).]]> Gaetano Ieluzzo. The stamp commemorates the "Giornata della filatelia 2011" (Philately Day 2011). In the center of the stamp is a reproduction of the 1965 Italian 500-lire postage stamp showing the Naples Bust of Dante. The background comprises a collage of the following designs: 1.) Lower left: the Italian cancellation of November 30, 2007, showing Dante in profile; 2.) Upper right: the Italian cancellation of October 23, 2009, showing a representation of Dante's hell; and 3.) Lower right: An envelope stamped with three 25-centesimi Italian "Proclamation of the Empire" postage stamps from 1938 designed by Corrado Mezzana. The maximum card's cancellation has the same design as the stamp.]]> o Centenario della nascita / di Dante Alighieri" (7th centenary of the birth of Dante Alighieri).]]> Dante in Exile. Issued by Kyrgyz Express Post. Designed by Elnur Isakov. "Maximum Card N^o 8". Limited to 300 pieces.]]>