Postage Stamp - Guinea - 1990
<span>This postage stamp was issued by Guinea as part of a series celebrating the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy. The air mail stamp, designed by Jean-Louis Puvilland, is a collage of images: the 1990 FIFA World Cup logo, the World Cup trophy, a soccer player kicking a ball, and Enrico Pazzi's 1865 statue of Dante in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. At the top of the stamp is the country name, "REPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE"; a</span><span>t the bottom of the stamp is "POSTE AERIENNE" (air mail) and the denomination, "750 F". Below the logo is "STATUE DE / DANTE / (FLORENCE)".</span>
Denomination: 750 F (750 GNF)
Perforation: 13 ¼ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Jean-Louis Puvilland
Enrico Pazzi
French
Postage Stamp
Guinea
Postage Stamp - Paraguay - 1973
Part of a series of stamps issued by Paraguay in 1973 depicting Florentine paintings, this air mail stamp shows a detail from Domenico di Michelino's <em>La commedia illumina Firenze</em> (<em>The Comedy Illuminates Florence</em>). Michelino's fifteenth-century fresco painting is in the cathedral of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore. In the stamp's upper right corner is "PARAGUAY / AEREO". The denomination is in the lower left corner while the artist and designer are indicated along the bottom: "DOMENICO DI MICHELINO" and "LITO. NACIONAL - PORTO - PORTUGAL".
Denomination: Gs. 20. (20.00 PYG)
Perforation: 14 (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Domenico di Michelino
Litografia Nacional (Porto, Portugal)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Paraguay
First Day Cover - Mexico - 1965 - Unknown Designer
The cachet on this first day cover features a line-drawing portrait of Dante and text as follows: "DANTE ALIGHIERI / VII CENTENARIO DE SU / NACIMIENTO" (Dante Alighieri, 7th centenary of his birth) and "PRIMER DIA DE EMISION." (first day of issue). The cachet is printed on an air mail envelope and partly overlaps text at the bottom: "CORREO AEREO – VIA AIR MAIL".
English
Spanish
First Day Cover
Mexico
Postage Stamp - Umm al-Quwain - 1972
This expansive set of thirty-five air mail postage stamps was issued in 1972 by an agent under contract to the state of Umm al-Quwain. The stamps depict scenes from a number of illustrated manuscripts of the <em>Divina commedia</em> and other works as well as one fresco. Each stamp is printed either horizontally or vertically between two labels: the left label is Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco <em>Disputation of the Holy Sacrament</em> in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City and the right label is a quotation from the <em>Divina commedia</em> relevant to the illustration on the stamp. The horizontally printed stamps have "christmas" and "peace" to the left and right of the portrait, respectively, while the vertically printed stamps have "christmas" below the portrait. At the bottom of each stamp are the denomination, air mail designation, and country in English and the denomination and country in Arabic.<br /><br />Below are listed for each stamp the subject, label quotation, and illustration source (library, manuscript shelfmark, folio number, place of origin, artist, and approximate date of creation). Identification of the illustration sources was kindly provided by <a href="https://twitter.com/pellegrina14233" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Melissa Conway</a>.<br /><ul><li>Michel 887 – The three beasts – <em>Inferno</em> 1:49–51 – Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10509601v" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Italien 2017</a>, f. 10v, Lombardy, Master of the <em>Vitae Imperatorum</em>, ca. 1440</li>
<li>Michel 888 – Pope Celestine V – <em>Inferno</em> 3:59–60 – Unidentified; from a manuscript of the <em>Vaticinia de summis pontificibus</em></li>
<li>Michel 889 – Paolo and Francesca – <em>Inferno</em> 5:103–105 – Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, 1076, f. 13v, Lombardy, ca. 1385</li>
<li>Michel 890 – Cerberus – <em>Inferno</em> 6:13–15 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 15r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 891 – Dante and Virgil – <em>Inferno</em> 9:127–129 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 22v, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 892 – Farinata degli Uberti – <em>Inferno</em> 10:31–33 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 25r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 893 – Pope Anastasius II – <em>Inferno</em> 11:7–9 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 28r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 894 – Centaurs – <em>Inferno</em> 12:73–75 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4776" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Vat. lat. 4776</a>, f. 42v, ca. 1390–1400</li>
<li>Michel 895 – Pier della Vigna – <em>Inferno</em> 13:58–61 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 33r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 896 – Brunetto Latini – <em>Inferno</em> 15:31–33 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 38v, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 897 – Swindlers – <em>Inferno</em> 21:43–45 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 54v, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 898 – Caiaphas – <em>Inferno</em> 23:109–111 – Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10500687r" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Italien 74</a>, f. 68r, Florence, Bartolomeo di Fruosino, ca. 1420</li>
<li>Michel 899 – Dante and Virgil – <em>Inferno</em> 26:31–33 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 72v, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 900 – Bocca degli Abati – <em>Inferno</em> 32:37–39 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 87r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 901 – Lucifer's Legs – <em>Inferno</em> 34:88–90 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 95v, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 902 – Cato – <em>Purgatorio</em> 1:71–72 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 97r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 903 – Angel – <em>Purgatorio</em> 2:43–45 – Unidentified</li>
<li>Michel 904 – Manfred – <em>Purgatorio</em> 3:112–113 – Unidentified; possibly from a manuscript of the <em>Liber ad honorem Augusti</em></li>
<li>Michel 905 – Belacqua – <em>Purgatorio</em> 4:103–105 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_943_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Egerton 943</a>, f. 69v, Emilia or Padua, Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, ca. 1325–1350</li>
<li>Michel 906 – Sordello – <em>Purgatorio</em> 6:74–75 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_943_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Egerton 943</a>, f. 74r, Emilia or Padua, Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, ca. 1325–1350</li>
<li>Michel 907 – Nino Visconti – <em>Purgatorio</em> 8:52–54 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_943_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Egerton 943</a>, f. 76v, Emilia or Padua, Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, ca. 1325–1350</li>
<li>Michel 908 – Angel – <em>Purgatorio</em> 17:55–57 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.365" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Urb. lat. 365</a>, f. 145r, Urbino, Guglielmo Giraldi and assistants, ca. 1478</li>
<li>Michel 909 – Leah – <em>Purgatorio</em> 27:100–102 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_943_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Egerton 943</a>, f. 113r, Emilia or Padua, Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, ca. 1325–1350</li>
<li>Michel 910 – Eunoe River – <em>Purgatorio</em> 28:121–123 – Unidentified</li>
<li>Michel 911 – Dante and Beatrice – <em>Purgatorio</em> 31:103–104 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_943_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Egerton 943</a>, f. 121r, Emilia or Padua, Master of the Antiphonar of Padua, ca. 1325–1350</li>
<li>Michel 912 – The order of paradise – <em>Paradiso</em> 1:109–111 – Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, <a href="http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.4112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cod. Barb. lat. 4112</a>, f. 141r, Tuscany?, 1419</li>
<li>Michel 913 – Empyrean – <em>Paradiso</em> 2:112–114 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_36_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yates Thompson 36</a>, f. 132r, Tuscany, Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1450</li>
<li>Michel 914 – Justinian – <em>Paradiso</em> 6:10–12 – Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. IX, 276 (=6902), f. 56v, Veneto, ca. 1380–1400</li>
<li>Michel 915 – Rahab – <em>Paradiso</em> 9:112–116 – Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. IX, 276 (=6902), f. 59v, Veneto, ca. 1380–1400</li>
<li>Michel 916 – Saint Francis – <em>Paradiso</em> 11:73–75 – Assisi, fresco by Cimabue in the Basilica of Saint Francis, Lower Church, ca. 1280</li>
<li>Michel 917 – Cacciaguida – <em>Paradiso</em> 17:58–60 – Padua, Biblioteca del Seminario, MS 67, f. 259v, Padua, early 1400s</li>
<li>Michel 918 – Eagle of Souls – <em>Paradiso</em> 19:1–3 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_36_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yates Thompson 36</a>, f. 162r, Tuscany, Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1450</li>
<li>Michel 919 – Saturn – <em>Paradiso</em> 21:25–27 – Modena, Biblioteca Estense, <a href="http://bibliotecaestense.beniculturali.it/info/img/mss/i-mo-beu-alfa.x.2.14.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">α.X.2.14 = Lat. 209</a>, f. 4v, Milan, ca. 1450–1460</li>
<li>Michel 920 – Jesus Christ – <em>Paradiso</em> 23:28–30 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_36_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yates Thompson 36</a>, f. 171r, Tuscany, Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1450</li>
<li>Michel 921 – Saint Peter – <em>Paradiso</em> 24:34–36 – London, British Library, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_36_fs001ar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yates Thompson 36</a>, f. 172r, Tuscany, Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1450</li>
</ul>
Denomination: 4 RIYALS (4 QAR)
Perforation: 13 ½ (line)
Printing process: Photogravure
Cimabue
Bartolomeo di Fruosino
Guglielmo Giraldi
Master of the Antiphonar of Padua
Master of the <em>Vitae Imperatorum</em>
Giovanni di Paolo
Raphael
Arabic
English
Postage Stamp
Umm al-Quwain
Postage Stamp - Paraguay - 1966
<span>This set of two postage stamps was issued by Paraguay in 1966 as part of an 8-stamp set celebrating four world authors (Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Molière, and William Shakespeare). The Dante stamps show a monochrome version of Henry Holiday's 1884 painting </span><em>Dante and Beatrice</em><span> and Giotto's portrait of the poet. The stamps are captioned as follows: "DANTE / ALIGHIERI / 1265-1321"; "PRIMER ENCUENTRO CON BEATRIZ / A LA ORILLA DEL ARNO·FLORENCIA" (First encounter with Beatrice on the bank of the Arno, Florence); and, vertically along the left side, "CUADRO PINTADO POR HOLIDAY" (Picture painted by Holiday). At the top of the 10-<span>céntimos</span> stamp is "CORREO DEL / PARAGUAY / CENTENARIO DE LA EPOPEYA NACIONAL DE 1864 - 1870" (Mail of Paraguay; Centenary of the national epic of 1864-1870); at the top of the 36-<span>guaraní</span> stamp is "CORREO AEREO DEL / PARAGUAY / CENTENARIO DE LA EPOPEYA NACIONAL DE 1864 - 1870" (Air mail of Paraguay; Centenary of the national epic of 1864-1870). The denomination is in the lower right corner while the printer and designer are indicated along the bottom: "DE LA RUE DE COLOMBIA" (Thomas de la Rue de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia) and "MOSDÓSSY" (Imre Mosdóssy). The stamps are known to have been printed in other colors.</span>
Denomination: ₲ 0.10 (0.10 PYG); ₲ 36.00 (36.00 PYG)
Perforation: 12 × 12 ¾ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Henry Holiday
Giotto
Imre Mosdóssy
Thomas de la Rue de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Paraguay
Postage Stamp - Panama - 1966
This air mail postage stamp was issued by Panama a year after the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth and features Giotto's portrait of the poet. The stamp has text as follows: vertically, along the left side: "PANAMA"; vertically, along the right side: "DANTE ALIGHIERI"; at the bottom: "10¢ AEREO". The stamp's printer and designer are indicated along the bottom: "DE LA RUE DE COLOMBIA" and "R. BERGAMO".
Denomination: 10¢ (0.10 PAB)
Perforation: 14 (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Giotto
R. Bergamo
Thomas de la Rue de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Panama
Postage Stamp - Mexico - 1965
This air mail postage stamp was issued by Mexico to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. The stamp features a portrait of Dante based on the portrait in Raphael's fresco painting <em>The Parnassus</em>. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "AEREO-MEXICO"; below Dante's chin: "1965"; and at the bottom: "$2.<sup><span style="text-decoration:underline;">00</span></sup> / 1265 DANTE 1321". Along the bottom edge are the name of the designer, "LACAYO.", the artist "RAFAEL SANZIO", and the abbreviated name of the printer, "T.I.E.V." (<span>Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores in Mexico City).</span>
Denomination: $2.00 (2.00 MXP)
Perforation: 10 × 10 ½ (comb)
Raphael
Lacayo
Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores (Mexico City, Mexico)
Italian
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Mexico
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1938
<span>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 have the same design by Corrado Mezzana: a standing figure of the poet, holding a book, with a large imperial eagle in the background. On the regular issue 25-centesimi stamp, a 1925 quotation by Benito Mussolini appears below Dante: "IL PIV ALTO GENIO / DELLA POESIA" (The highest genius of poetry).<sup>1</sup> Dante's birth and death years flank the quotation and Mussolini's initial "M" appears below it. At the bottom is "POSTE ITALIANE" and the denomination "CENT. / 25". The other two stamps share the same text as follows: vertically, along the left side: "POSTA AEREA" (air mail); and vertically, along the right side: "ITALIANA"; their respective denominations are at the bottom. Along the bottom edge of each stamp are the abbreviated name of the printer, "IST. POL. STATO. OFF. CARTE VALORI" (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori), and the designer, "C. MEZZANA".</span>
Denomination: CENT. 25 (0.25 ITL); CENT. 50 (0.50 ITL; air mail); LIRE VNA (1 ITL; air mail)
Perforation: 14 (comb)
Printing process: Photogravure
Print run: 200,000 (CENT. 25); 500,000 (CENT. 50); 500,000 (LIRE VNA)
Images courtesy of <a href="http://www.ibolli.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iBolli.it</a>.
Corrado Mezzana
Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori (Rome, Italy)
Italian
Postage Stamp
Italy
Postage Stamp - Uruguay - 1966
This air mail postage stamp issued by Uruguay in 1966 features a modern portrait of Dante in the style of a medal. The stamp was designed by Medina and printed by the Impresora Nacional.
Denomination: 50 c (0.50 pesos)
Perforation: 12 ¼ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Medina
Impresora Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Uruguay
Postage Stamp - Guatemala - 1969
This set of five air mail postage stamps was issued by Guatemala in 1969. The stamps feature a portrait of Dante surrounded by imagery representing hell. Each stamp has the same text, except for denomination, as follows: at the top: "GUATEMALA / CORREO AEREO" (air mail); and at the bottom: "1265 / 1321", "DANTE ALIGHIERI". Along the bottom edge of each stamp is "GRABADOS EN ACERO GUATEMALA-CHY" (engraved in steel, Guatemala, Ch[avarr]y). The stamps were engraved by Arnoldo Chavarry.
Denomination: 7 ¢ (0.07 GTQ); 10 ¢ (0.10 GTQ); 20 ¢ (0.20 GTQ); 21 ¢ (0.21 GTQ); 35 ¢ (0.35 GTQ)
Perforation: 11 ½ (line) or 12 ½ (line)
Arnoldo Chavarry
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Guatemala
Postage Stamp - Ecuador - 1966
<span>This set of three postage stamps was issued by Ecuador to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, however the stamps were not issued until June 1966. The 10-centavos stamp shows a posterized version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1871 painting </span><em>Dante's Dream</em><span>. The 80-centavos stamp shows a monochrome version of Henry Holiday's 1884 painting </span><em>Dante and Beatrice</em><span>. The 3-sucres stamp shows Gustave Doré's portrait of Dante in reverse next to a flame. Each stamp is captioned as follows: "LA RÉVE de DANTE Rossetti / SEPTIMO CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE DANTE – 1.265–1.965" (S/. 0.10); "DANTE y Beatrix – Holiday / SEPTIMO CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE DANTE – 1.265–1.965" (S/. 0.80); "1.265 DANTE 1.965 / SEPTIMO CENTENARIO DE SU NACIMIENTO" (S/. 3.00). At the top of each stamp is "CORREOS DEL / ECUADOR" and the denomination while the printer is indicated at the bottom: "DE LA RUE DE COLOMBIA" (Thomas de la Rue de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia).</span>
Denomination: S/. 0.10 (0.10 ECS); S/. 0.80 (0.80 ECS); S/. 3.00 AEREO (3.00 ECS)
Perforation: 13 ½ × 14 (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Henry Holiday
Gustave Doré
Thomas de la Rue de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
French
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Ecuador