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Postage Stamp - Italy - 1933
This postage stamp was issued for pneumatic mail and features an image of the Naples Bust of Dante. Below the portrait is "DANTE ALIGHIERI". To the right of the portrait is text as follows: "REGNO D'ITALIA / POSTA / PNEVMATICA / CENT. 15" (Kingdom of…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1938
These stamps were issued by Italy as part of two series (a regular issue with ten stamps and an air mail issue with six stamps) for the "Proclamation of the Empire" featuring prominent Italians and other propaganda imagery. The three Dante stamps…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1990
This postage stamp celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Società Dante Alighieri in 1889. The stamp shows a bust of Dante (based on the Naples Bust), an open book, and a globe, symbolizing the goals of the society in spreading…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2009
This postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi/Akademie Deutsch-Italienischer Studien in Merano, Italy. The stamp shows the academy's logo consisting of overlapping profile…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2011
This postage stamp is the 25th in a series issued to commemorate the Giornata della Filatelia (Philately Day). 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…
Cancellation - Italy (Roma) - 2011 November 18
This cancellation mirrors the 2011 Italian postage stamp for the "GIORNATA DELLA FILATELIA" (Philately Day) designed by Gaetano Ieluzzo. The cancellation reproduces the 1965 Italian 500-lire postage stamp showing the Naples Bust of Dante; the Italian…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1921
These are the first postage stamps ever issued that feature Dante and the first Italian postage stamps to feature an author.1 One of the first descriptions of these stamps is perhaps the best: the following account appeared in the October 1, 1921,…
Maximum Card - Italy - 1990 - Golden Italia
This maximum card was issued by Golden Italia as "Edizione «Roma» no 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…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1932
In 1932, Italy issued a series of twelve stamps for the benefit of the Società Dante Alighieri. The series depicts famous Italian poets and writers including (in order by increasing denomination) Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Paolo Sarpi,…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1932 (Aegean Islands)
In 1932, Italy issued a series of twelve stamps for the benefit of the Società Dante Alighieri. In addition to regular issue stamps and stamps for the Italian colonies, the government also issued stamps for the Italian Aegean Islands territory. The…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1932 (Colonies)
In 1932, Italy issued a series of twelve stamps for the benefit of the Società Dante Alighieri. In addition to regular issue stamps and Aegean Islands stamps, the government also issued stamps for the Italian colonies. The series depicts famous…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2009
This postage stamp was issued as part of a joint issue with San Marino and Vatican City for the Giornata della Lingua Italiana (Celebration Day of the Italian Language) in 2009. It is also the fourth issue in the Festival internazionale della…
Miniature Sheet - Italy - 2009
The Italy miniature sheet features five stamps with adjacent labels. In the left margin are logos for the 2009 Festival Internazionale della Filatelia (International Festival of Philately) and Poste Italiane; in the right margin is a barcode and the…
Meter Stamp - Italy - 1934 - Giacomo Costa fu Andrea
This meter stamp was used by the Genoa, Italy-based shipping company Giacomo Costa fu Andrea to advertise "Dante" brand olive oil. The stamp features the brand's Dante portrait logo.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Capitolium
These first day covers were issued by Capitolium (no. 81) in blue and purple. The cachets are reminiscent of Sandro Botticelli's illustrations for Inferno 19 showing the souls of simonists in the third bolgia (ditch) of the eighth circle of hell,…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1990 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. Both cachets feature the same design showing Dante with a globe and stack of books, however the "Gold" series cachet is printed on a small sheet of rayon that is affixed to the envelope within a…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1990 - Roma-Luxor
This first day cover was issued by Roma-Luxor (IT. 458). The cachet shows a photographic reproduction of the Naples Bust of Dante within a gold-embossed circle with the phrase "SOCIETA DANTE ALIGHIERI CENTENARIO DELLA FONDAZIONE" (Dante Alighieri…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Uncacheted
This uncacheted first day cover was postmarked in Foligno on November 23, 1972. It was owned by Floriano Ornaghi, the Italian philatelist and expert in mechanical cancellations, whose name appears stamped in blue ink.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. The "Gold" series cachet is printed on a small sheet of rayon that is affixed to the envelope within a printed blue-green frame with "ITALIA" at the top. On the cachet itself is text as follows: "Vo…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Venetia
This first day cover was issued by Venetia (333/It.). The cachet features a portrait of Dante in a modern style, executed in green with text in blue: over the portrait: "DIVI / NACO / MME / DIA."; and above the portrait: "primo giorno di emissione"…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Filagrano
These first day covers were issued by Filagrano. One cachet features Gustave Doré's illustration for Paradiso 14:103-105, "The Cross." Surrounding the cachet is text as follows: vertically, on the left: "first day cover"; at the top: "REPUBBLICA…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Roma
This first day cover was issued by Roma (It. 93-a). The cachet features a portrait of Dante based on the portrait in Raphael's fresco painting The Parnassus. Below the portrait is text as follows: "Dante / VII Centenario della nascita" (7th centenary…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Sole
This first day cover was issued by Sole (7). The cachet, signed "Berá", shows Dante looking at Ulysses (Odysseus) and Diomedes in flames, a scene from Inferno 26. Below the image is a quotation from Inferno 26:118–120: "Considerate la vostra semenza:…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Tre Stelle
This first day cover was issued by Tre Stelle. The cachet shows a colorized reproduction of the first page of Inferno from the Divina commedia printed in 1487 in Brescia by Bonino de Boninis. Below the image is text as follows: "Dante Alighieri / nel…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Venetia
These first day covers were issued by Venetia (nos. 223/It. and 223-2/It.).The cachet on 223/It. features a portrait of Dante in a modern style with text as follows: vertically, on the left: "DANTE ALIGHIERI"; and at the top: "PRIMO GIORNO DI…
Bulletin - Italy - 1990 - Amministrazione delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni
This bulletin was issued by the Italian Amministrazione delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni (no. 10/90). The bulletin includes information, written by Italo Borzi, about the 1990 Italy postage stamp celebrating the centenary of the Società Dante…
Bulletin - Italy - 1965 - Ministero delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni
This bulletin was issued by the Italian Ministero delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni (no. 119). The bulletin includes information, written by Aldo Ferrabino (and translated into French by Madeleine Cerri), about the 1965 Italy postage stamp…