First Day Cover - Italy - 1990 - Capitolium
This first day cover was issued by Capitolium (no. 683). The cachet features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco <em>Disputation of the Holy Sacrament</em> in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Surrounding the portrait is text as follows: "CENTENARIO DELLA FONDAZIONE DELLA SOCIETA / DANTE ALIGHIERI" (centenary of the foundation of the Dante Alighieri Society). The cachet is signed "T.O." (Orlando Tomassi) at the bottom.
Capitolium
Raphael
Orlando Tomassi
Italian
First Day Cover
Italy
Postage Stamp - Vatican City - 2009
<span>This postage stamp was issued as part of a joint issue with Italy and San Marino for the Giornata della Lingua Italiana (Celebration Day of the Italian Language) in 2009. It depicts a scene from the beginning of </span><em>Inferno</em><span> in which Dante (accompanied by Virgil in this illustration but not in the text) is blocked by three beasts. The scene is taken from a miniature in Codex Urbinate Latino 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. Each stamp is printed adjacent to a label with the first line from <em>Inferno</em> 1: "Nel / mezzo / del cammin / di nostra / vita" (Midway in the journey of our life). The second and third lines of </span><em>Inferno</em><span> appear on the San Marino and Italy stamps, respectively. The stamp was designed by Mauro Olivieri and Orlando Tomassi and printed by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.</span>
Denomination: 0,60 (0.60 EUR)
Perforation: 13 ¼ × 13 (comb)
Printing process: Rotogravure
Print run: 600,000
Mauro Olivieri
Orlando Tomassi
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Rome, Italy)
Italian
Postage Stamp
Vatican City
Postage Stamp - San Marino - 2009
<span>This postage stamp was issued as part of a joint issue with Italy and Vatican City for the Giornata della Lingua Italiana (Celebration Day of the Italian Language) in 2009. It depicts a scene from the beginning of </span><em>Inferno</em><span> in which Dante (accompanied by Virgil in this illustration but not in the text) is blocked by three beasts. The scene is taken from a miniature in Codex Urbinate Latino 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. Each stamp is printed adjacent to a label with the second line from <em>Inferno</em> 1: "mi / ritrovai / per una / selva / oscura," (I found myself in a dark wood). The first and third lines of </span><em>Inferno</em><span> appear on the Vatican City and Italy stamps, respectively. The stamp was designed by Mauro Olivieri and Orlando Tomassi and printed by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.</span>
Denomination: 0,60 (0.60 EUR)
Perforation: 13 ¼ × 13 (comb)
Printing process: Rotogravure
Print run: 600,000
Mauro Olivieri
Orlando Tomassi
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Rome, Italy)
Italian
Postage Stamp
San Marino
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 Filatelia "Italy 2009" (International Festival of Philately) series.<br /><br />The stamp depicts a scene from the beginning of <em>Inferno</em> in which Dante (accompanied by Virgil in this illustration but not in the text) is blocked by three beasts. The scene is taken from a miniature in Codex Urbinate Latino 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. Each stamp is printed adjacent to a label with the third line from <em>Inferno</em> 1: "ché la / diritta / via / era / smarrita." (that the right way was lost). The first two lines of <em>Inferno</em> appear on the Vatican City and San Marino stamps, respectively. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "€ 0,60"; at the bottom: "ITALIA"; and along the bottom, the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2009" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato). The stamp was designed by Mauro Olivieri and Orlando Tomassi.
Denomination: € 0,60 (0.60 EUR)
Perforation: 13 ¼ × 13 (comb)
Printing process: Rotogravure
Print run: 5,000,000
Mauro Olivieri
Orlando Tomassi
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Rome, Italy)
Italian
Postage Stamp
Italy