Title
First Day Cover - Vatican City - 1965 - ALA
Type
First Day Cover
Coverage
Vatican City
Date Issued
1965-05-18
Description
This first day cover was issued by ALA (no. 70). The cachet shows the portrait of Dante in Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. This is overprinted with Sandro Botticelli's illustration of Dante and Beatrice in the heaven of the moon from Paradiso 3 found in a manuscript volume in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin known as MS Hamilton 201. Below the cachet is text as follows: "1265 / 1965 / Città del Vaticano".
Extent
92 × 163 mm
Contributor
Raphael
Sandro Botticelli
ALA
Language
Italian