Divina commedia; above the wreath are the coat of arms of Chile on the left and of the Kingdom of Italy on the right. A burning torchière occupies the left side of the vignette. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "SESTO CENTENARIO / ·MORTE· / DANTE ALLIGHIERI" (sixth centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri); at the bottom: "'ONORATE / L'ALTISSIMO POETA' / 1321-Santiago Cile-1921" (Honor the most exalted poet).]]> This cinderella stamp from the fictional nation of P.R. Tongo features Giotto's portrait of Dante.]]> Aeneid 6:823: "·VINCET·AMOR·PATRIÆ·" (love of country conquers). At the bottom is "·SOCIETÀ·DANTE·ALIGHIERI" and the printer's name and city: "A. FUSETTI-MILANO". Antonio Fusetti's printing firm was established in 1922.]]> Annuario industriale della Provincia di Milano (Milan: Unione industriale fascista della Provincia di Milano, 1933), p. 666, https://books.google.com/books?id=CXGw_2BsrwQC&pg=PA666&lpg=PA666.]]> This poster stamp, likely from around 1920, is in the style of Delandre, pseudonym of Gaston Fontanille, and may have been issued by him.

The stamp depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent with the flag of the Kingdom of Italy surrounding the pedestal. At the bottom of the vignette is a quotation from Giosuè Carducci's poem from the same year "Per il monumento di Dante a Trento" (For the Monument of Dante at Trent): "Dante, si spazia da ben cinquecento / anni de l'Alpi sul tremendo spalto. / Ed or s'è fermo, e par ch'aspetti a Trento. / G. Carducci" (Dante, for the span of five hundred years has wandered the tremendous rampart of the Alps. And now he is stopped and seems to wait in Trent.)]]> o CENTENARIO / DANTESCO" (7th Dante centenary); at the bottom: "1265-1965" and "S. CRESTANI".]]> This set of cinderella stamps was issued by the Federazione italiana contro la tubercolosi e Consorzi provinciali antitubercolari (Italian Federation Against Tuberculosis and Provincial Antituberculosis Consortium) for the "XXVIII CAMPAGNA NAZIONALE ANTITUBERCOLARE" (28th National Antituberculosis Campaign) in 1965. Funds raised by the sale of the stamps went toward prevention campaigns and aid for the sick.

The ten stamps each have a portrait of Dante by a different artist: Giotto, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico di Michelino, Luca Signorelli, Raphael, Domenico Petarlini (here credited as "D. Perterlin"), Vittorio Guaccimanni, and Adolfo de Carolis. One portrait is an anonymous miniature from a fifteenth-century manuscript (MS Riccardiano 1040) now in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence; another is the anonymous Naples Bust.

The series was printed by Panetto & Petrelli of Spoleto, Italy, and issued in two formats: a booklet containing one set of stamps and a sheet repeating the set four times.]]> Il francobollo antitubercolare dal 1931 al 2000: catalogo-guida (N.p.: Agostino Merlin, 2010), p. 26.]]>
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Italian government approved the creation of loan programs to benefit various causes. These stamps was produced to advertise a particular program benefiting the Società Dante Alighieri which promoted Italian language and culture.]]> Pasquale Villari, "La 'Dante Alighieri' ad Udine," Nuova antologia: rivista di lettere, scienze ed arti 767 (December 1, 1903): 420–421.]]> This poster stamp commemorates the 600th anniversary of Dante's visit to San Gimignano as an ambassador from Florence as well as the death of Blessed Bartolo in 1300. The stamp shows the coat of arms of San Gimignano above a portrait of Bartolo and Giotto's fresco portrait of Dante. The text reads as follows: "VI CENTENARIO / dell'Ambasceria di / DANTE ALIGHIERI / e della morte del concitt.no / STO BARTOLO / SANGIMIGNANO 1899" (6th centenary of the embassy of Dante Alighieri and of the death of the fellow citizen Blessed Bartolo). The stamp was designed by Delille and printed by C. Borrani of Florence, Italy. Malorzo records a black version and a dark brown version.

The Florentine Guelfs sent Dante as an ambassador to San Gimignano where he arrived on May 7, 1300. Dante's mission was to announce the upcoming parliament where a new captain of the Guelf League of Tuscany would be elected and to solicit representatives to the parliament from San Gimignano (The Dante Encyclopedia). A contemporary of Dante, Blessed Bartolo was a Tuscan priest who dedicated much of his life to helping lepers until he succumbed to the disease in 1300.

]]> Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study with a Concise Iconography (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Ltd.; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), p. 73–150.]]> The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. by Richard Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000), p. 897.]]> This poster stamp was issued by Carlo Belloni of Milan and features a paraphrase from Inferno 33:80, "Italia! Il bel paese dove il sì suona......" (Italy! The beautiful country where the "sì" is heard......) followed by the propagandistic phrase "È dovere di ogni Italiano preferire le industrie paesane." (It is the duty of every Italian to give preference to domestic industries). The stamp depicts a portrait of Dante (probably based on the Naples Bust), Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent, and a branch. The stamp was engraved by F. Marioni.]]> Purgatorio 7:17. At the bottom of the stamp is text as follows: "VI·CENTENA– / RIO·DANTESCO / MCCCXXI–MCMXXI / COMITATO·DI· / MONTEVIDEO·" (6th Dante centenary 1321–1921, Montevideo chapter)."]]> The Parnassus. The stamp is printed directly onto the cover envelope which has a cachet of Giotto's portrait of Dante with text as follows: "FAMOUS VICTIMS / WHO DIED OF MALARIA" and "DANTE ALIGHIERI / Italian poet, died of malaria in 1321". The cover also shows a mosquito.]]>
The stamp features a portrait of Dante superimposed on a map of the world with lines focusing on Italy. The stamps have text as follows: upper right corner: “CENT. 50”; at the bottom: “1893-1985 / SOCIETÀ DANTE ALIGHIERI”; along the bottom edge: “DIS C. RIMOLDI” and “A.N.F.E.”.]]> GIORNATA DELLA DANTE ALIGHIERI" (Dante Alighieri Day). Based on its style, the stamp may be from the 1970s.]]>