The hand-painted cachets by Nino Masiello da Ercole on these first day covers each reproduce a different common portrait of Dante: one is based on the Naples Bust and the other is based on Gustave Doré's portrait of the poet. Below both cachets is "Pezzo unico" (unique item) and the artist's signature "Nino Masiello 2009". In the upper left corner of the envelope is the artist's logo.]]> Raphael's portrait of Dante (reversed from the original) from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The portrait is framed by a letter "D" in the style of a medieval manuscript. Below the portrait is text as follows: "VII CENTENARIO / Dante Alighieri" (7th centenary).]]> 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.]]> This first day cover's hand-painted cachet by Bernard Goldberg depicts Dante, crowned with a laurel wreath, against a purple and green background. Beside the cachet is calligraphic text as follows: "Dante / Alighieri / ~1265~1321~ / 'The Divine Comedy'". The cachet is signed "Goldberg" vertically along the right side. This cover was on the market as of June 2013.

]]> the cover issued by K. J. Moran. The cachet features a right-facing portrait of Dante with text as follows: at the top: "HONORING"; and at the bottom "ALIGHIERI DANTE / 700th ANNIVERSARY / OF BIRTH / OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER / UNIVERSAL PHILATELIC COVER SOCIETY".]]> –30, 1942, in Weimar and Florence, the meeting brought together members of the national fascist youth movements of Germany and Italy—the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) and the Gioventù italiana del Littorio (Italian Youth of the Lictor). The meetings featured competitions and events organized around five themes: Music, Youth Books, Youth Press, Youth Theater, and Radio.

This stamp's theme represents unity between Italy and Germany by showing overlapping portraits of Dante and German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The portrait of Dante is Raphael's painting of the poet (reversed from the original) from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The portraits are flanked by two lions. Above the lion on the left is the Roman gladius sword and shield emblem of the Gioventù italiana del Littorio; above the lion on the right is the emblem of the Hitlerjugend. The left lion holds a shield with a fleur-de-lis, symbol of Florence, and the right lion holds a shield with a fasces, symbol of fascist Italy.

The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "MANIFESTAZIONI CULTURALI"; at the bottom: "DELLA GIOVENTÙ EUROPEA". The year below the lions, "ANNO / XX·EF.", stands for "20th year of the fascist era." The fascist era began when Mussolini rose to power after his infamous march on Rome in October 1922. The 20th year ran from October 28, 1941 to October 27, 1942. Along the bottom edge is the abbreviated name of the printer, "IST. POL. STATO - OFF. CARTE VALORI" (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori), and the designer, "M. MELIS" (Melkiorre Melis). Malorzo erroneously records this as a 1944 issue.]]> Kulturkundgebungen der Europäischen Jugend: Weimar-Florenz, 18. bis 30. Juni 1942: Wettbewerbe und Arbeitsgemeinschaften in Weimar. Weimar?: s.n., 1942. https://archive.org/details/EuropaischeJugend1942Wettbewerbe.]]> https://miles.forumcommunity.net/?t=57488707.]]> Inferno 4:80 above the same portrait: "Onorate l'altissimo Poeta" (Honor the most exalted poet) and dates "1321 - 1921" below.]]>
  • No. 9: Bust of Dante
  • No. 10: Dante's house in Florence
  • No. 11: Dante's tomb in Ravenna
  • No. 12: Bust of Beatrice; quotation from Vita nuova 26:5
  • No. 13: Vision of Beatrice; quotation from Paradiso 21:1–2
  • No. 14: Map of Trieste; quotation from Inferno 9:113–114
  • No. 15: Map of Trent; quotation from Inferno 20:61–63
  • No. 16: Vision from Purgatorio; quotation from Purgatorio 29:121–122
All of the stamps have either "ONORATE L’ALTISSIMO POETA" (Honor the most exalted poet); a reference to the sixth centenary of Dante's death (or both); dates; and other descriptive text and/or quotations from Dante's works as enumerated above.

Malorzo lists four varieties of this issue: type "a": printed in blue on yellow paper; type "b": printed in green-gray on white paper; type "c": printed in brown on white paper (shown here); and type "d": printed in black on white paper.]]> Purgatorio)]]>
The stamp showing the basilica has text as follows: vertically, along the left side: "COMITATO·CATTOLICO" (Catholic committee); vertically, along the right side: "VI·CENTENARIO·DANTESCO" (6th Dante centenary); and at the bottom: "·RAVENNA·MCCCXXI·=·MCMXXI·". The denomination is split on either side of the portrait of Dante: "CENT 20". The other stamp has text as follows: at the top, words from Inferno 4:80 and dates: "ONORATE / L'ALTISSIMO POETA·1321 / 1921" (Honor the most exalted poet); and at the bottom: "RAVENNA / CENT. 20".]]>
HIC ORAVIT
SUAE GENTIS IMPERITURA GLORIA
UNITATIS ASSERTOR POPULORUM
DIVUS POËTA
FIDEM CECINIT DIVINE
VIRGINEM MATREM EXALTAVIT

Jan Ziolkowski provides the following translation:

Here prayed
the undying glory of his race,
the proclaimer of the oneness of the peoples,
the divine poet:
he sang the faith divinely,
he exalted the virgin mother.

The cancellation quotes all but the first and last lines: "SUAE GENTIS / IMPERITURA GLORIA / UNITATIS ASSERTOR / POPULORUM / DIVUS POETA / FIDEM CECINIT DIVINE". The current plaque in the church was apparently installed on May 31, 1979.

The right side of the cancellation is occupied by the coat of arms of the Holy See with text as follows: "POSTE / VATICANE" (Vatican mail), "DIE EMISSIONIS" (day of issue), and the date.]]> These two stamps are part of a set of six stamps celebrating paintings by Raphael. One stamp shows Raphael's The Parnassus and the other shows his Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Both frescoes are in the Stanza della Segnatura (Room of the Signatura), part of the so-called "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. In The Parnassus, Dante is the first standing figure from the left in the upper row. In the Disputation, he is the eighth from the right in the lower row, although he is difficult to distinguish in this stamp.

Across the bottom of the 75-dirham stamp is a caption as follows: "Raffaello: Parnassus"; across the bottom of the 2-riyals stamp is "Raffaello: The Dispute". At the bottom of both stamps are the denomination and country in English and in Arabic.]]> The Parnassus)]]> Disputation of the Holy Sacrament)]]> Ạ ARMATA" (1st Army) and at the bottom is "TRENTO" (Trent).]]> This bulletin was issued by the Italian Amministrazione delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni (no. 210). The bulletin includes information, written by Salvatore Accardo (and translated into French by Madeleine Cerri), about the 1972 Italy postage stamps commemorating the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first three editions of Dante's Divina commedia. The bulletin was printed by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato in Rome.]]> Inferno 24:77–78: "LA DIMANDA ONESTA SI DEE SE- / GVIR CON L'OPERA TACENDO" (The honest request must be followed by silent work).]]> o CONGRESSO / PADOVA Settembre / 1923" (28th congress, Padua, September 1923). To the left of the text is the denomination "20 Cmi" (20 centesimi) with the "C" encircling the "20".]]> Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell). At the top of the stamp is a caption, "Dante et Virgile aux enfers, / 1822", and the denomination, "40000FG". At the bottom is text as follows: "Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863"; "Office de la Poste Guinéenne 2013"; and "REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE". The stamp was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.]]> FG (40000 GNF)]]> The issuer of these first day covers is not indicated but they bear a logo featuring a rooster. The covers are numbered 139 and 140. The cachet for no. 139 is by an unidentified artist and depicts a scene from the beginning of the Inferno in which Dante is blocked by three beasts. He is shown holding a shepherd's crook and wearing a lyre on his back (symbolizing his role as a poet). The cachet for no. 140 is based on Gustave Doré's illustration for Paradiso 26:7–9, "The Heaven of the Fixed Stars," showing Dante and Beatrice before Saint John. Except for their numbering in the upper left corner, both of the cachets have the same text as follows: at the top: "PREMIER JOUR D'EMISSION / F.D.C." (first day of issue); and at the bottom: "DANTE ALIGHIERI / 700e Anniversaire" (700th anniversary).]]>