Divina commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, or Paradiso. The fourth stamp shows the Naples Bust of Dante. The subjects are as follows:

The 40-lire stamp depicts a scene from Inferno 10 in which Dante and Virgil meet the entombed Florentine heretics Farinata degli Uberti and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. The scene is taken from a miniature in Cod. Urb. lat. 365, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library.
The 90-lire stamp depicts a scene from Purgatorio 26–27 in which the angel of chastity points Dante, Virgil, and Statius toward a wall of fire through which they will pass. The scene is taken from a miniature in MS It. IX, 276 (=6902), a fourteenth-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.
The 130-lire stamp depicts a scene from Paradiso 24 in which St. Peter interrogates Dante—accompanied by Beatrice—about the poet's faith. The scene is taken from a miniature by Giovanni di Paolo in Yates Thompson 36, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the British Library.
The 500-lire stamp depicts the Naples Bust of Dante.

At the top of each stamp is "1265-DANTE ALIGHIERI-1321" and along the bottom is "POSTE ITALIANE" and the denomination. Along the bottom edge of each stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.S.-OFF.CART.VAL. 1965" (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori).

This series was deemed "Most Beautiful Stamp of 1965" by readers of the Italian stamp collecting magazine Il Collezionista.¹]]> Dante: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri 10 (2013): 132.]]> Divina commedia.¹ The first edition was printed in Foligno by Johann Neumeister and Evangelista Angelini. The second edition was printed in Mantua by Georgius de Augusta and Paulus de Butzbach for Columbinus Veronensis. The third edition was printed by Federicus de Comitibus Veronensis in an unknown location. Scholars once attributed the third edition to Iesi (Jesi) and the 180-lire stamp reflects this, however current scholarship attributes the printing to Venice.

The stamps reproduce the first few printed lines of each respective edition taken from specific copies held in three Italian libraries: the 50-lire image is from the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, the 90-lire image is from the Casa di Dante in Rome, and the 180-lire image is from the Convento di San Francesco in Ravenna. Surrounding each central image is a legend: on the 50-lire stamp: "QUINTO CENTENARIO / EDIZIONE FOLIGNATE / DIVINA COMMEDIA" (5th centenary of the Foligno edition [of the] Divina commedia); on the 90-lire stamp: "QUINTO CENTENARIO / EDIZIONE MANTOVANA / DIVINA COMMEDIA" (5th centenary of the Mantuan edition [of the] Divina commedia); and on the 180-lire stamp: "QUINTO CENTENARIO / EDIZIONE JESINA / DIVINA COMMEDIA" (5th centenary of the Jesi edition of the Divina commedia). Along the bottom edge of each stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.S.-ROMA-1972" (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato).]]> Dante: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri 10 (2013): 134.]]> 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 Italian culture throughout the world. Above the globe is text as follows: "CENTENARIO SOCIETÀ / DANTE ALIGHIERI" (centenary of the Società Dante Alighieri). Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. - ROMA - 1990" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the designer: "M. CODONI" (Mario Codoni).]]> 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 portraits of Dante and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe within a circle. At the top of the stamp is text as follows: "ACCADEMIA DI STUDI ITALO-TEDESCHI / AKADEMIE DEUTSCH-ITALIENISCHER STUDIEN / 1959-2009 / MERANO MERAN" (Academy for Italian-German Studies, Merano). Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2009" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the designer: "A.M. MARESCA" (Anna Maria Maresca).]]>
The stamp depicts a scene from the beginning of Inferno 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 Inferno 1: "ché la / diritta / via / era / smarrita." (that the right way was lost). The first two lines of Inferno 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.]]> 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 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.

In the upper left corner of the stamp is text as follows: "GIORNATA / DELLA / FILATELIA / PROGETTO / DANTE" (Philately Day Dante Project); across the bottom of the stamp is "LA DIVINA COMMEDIA ATTRAVERSO LA FILATELIA" (The Divina commedia through philately). Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2011" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the designer: "G. IELUZZO" (Gaetano Ieluzzo).

]]> –2018). The set is the 33rd issue in the series "Le Eccellenze del sistema produttivo ed economico" (The excellencies of the productive and economic system).

The stamp shows Mickey Mouse as Dante and Goofy as Virgil as illustrated by cartoonist Giorgio Cavazzano after Angelo Bioletto's comic strip version of Inferno published from October 1949 to March 1950 in Topolino. On the left side of the stamp is text as follows: top: "Disney" (logo); middle: "90 ANNI di / TOPOLINO" (90 years of Mickey Mouse); bottom: "ITALIA / € 0,95". Vertically, along the right side is: "© Disney". Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2017" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato).

This is the only stamp in the set of eight that also was issued in sheets of 28 stamps.]]> This set of three stamps issued by Italy commemorates the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. Poste Italiane describes the stamps as follows:

Inferno: "[P]articolare di un'opera del pittore Corrado Veneziano dal titolo 'L'Inferno, evocando Buffalmacco'" (Detail from a work by the painter Corrado Veneziano titled Inferno, Evoking Buffalmacco)
Purgatorio: "[L]a figura di un uomo, i cui lineamenti richiamo il poeta Dante Alighieri, che si staglia sul binario di una stazione metropolitana; alle sue spalle figure inquiete paiono ipnotizzate da schermi luminosi, intorno fluttuano alcuni libri" (The figure of a man, whose features recall the poet Dante Alighieri, who stands on the platform of a subway station; behind him restless figures appear hypnotized by luminous screens, some books float around)
Paradiso: "[L]'opera di Paolo Bocci intitolata 'Il passaggio del testimone' in cui un giovane, con il capo cinto da foglie di alloro, iconografia da sempre rappresentativa del poeta Dante Alighieri, esulta in un acrobatico salto sorreggendo una penna in una mano, circondato da lettere e da fogli di carta" (The work of Paolo Bocci titled The Passing of the Baton in which a young man, with his head encircled by laurel leaves, iconography that has always been representative of the poet Dante Alighieri, rejoices in an acrobatic jump while holding a pen in one hand, surrounded by letters and sheets of paper).

Each stamp has the same text as follows: vertically along the top left side: "700"; at the top: "DANTE ALIGHIERI"; in the bottom left corner: "ITALIA"; and in the bottom right corner: "B". Along the bottom edge of each stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2021" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the respective designer: for Inferno: "C. VENEZIANO"; for Purgatorio: "F. DI PIETRO"; and for Paradiso: "P. BOCCI".]]> Inferno, Purgatorio); 48 × 40 mm (Paradiso)]]> https://filatelia.poste.it/files/1476545021394/46%29-14-09-2021-F.I.-Dante-Alighieri.pdf]]> Dante and Beatrice. In the upper left corner is the denomination; in the upper right corner is the logo of Kyrgyz Express Post; vertically, along the left side, is "Кыргызстан / Kyrgyzstan / 2015"; and in the lower right corner are Dante's name and dates "Данте Алигьери (1265-1321)". The stamp was designed by Olga Derej and printed by Nova Imprim (Chișinău, Moldova).]]> Newsletter 6 (September 2, 2015), https://www.kep.kg/img/newsletter-no-6_en.pdf]]> Miniature Sheet - Liechtenstein - 2021]]> https://www.philatelie.li/webseite/ausgabeinformationen/ausgaben/issue/700-todestag-von-dante-alighieri/]]> This set of three stamps, designed by Emvin Cremona, was issued by Malta to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. Each stamp features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Except for denomination, the stamps share the same text as follows: in the upper left corner: "DANTE / 1265-1965" and in the lower right corner: "MALTA".

]]> The Parnassus. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "AEREO-MEXICO"; below Dante's chin: "1965"; and at the bottom: "$2.⁰⁰ / 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." (Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores in Mexico City).]]>

The 30-centime stamp shows a left-facing portrait of Dante with text as follows: in the upper left corner: "MONACO / 1965"; in the upper right corner: "0,30"; and at the bottom: "DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321". The names of the designer and the engraver appear in the lower right corner: "P. LAMBERT" and "COTTET".
The 60-centime stamp depicts Dante in the dark wood impeded by a leopard from Inferno 1:31–36. The stamp has text as follows: in the upper right corner: "MONACO 1965 / 0,60"; and in the lower left corner: "DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321". The names of the designer and the engraver appear in the lower center and right corner: "P. LAMBERT" and "MONVOISIN".
The 70-centime stamp depicts Dante and Virgil crossing the Styx from Inferno 8:25–30. The stamp has text as follows: in the upper left corner: "MONACO 1965 / 0,70"; and in the lower right corner: "DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321". The name of the designer, "P. LAMBERT", appears in the lower left corner and the name of the engraver appears vertically in the lower right corner: "BETEMPS".
The 95-centime stamp shows Dante observing praying penitents from Purgatorio. The stamp has text as follows: in the upper right corner: "MONACO 1965 / 0,95"; and in the lower left corner: "DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321". The names of the designer and the engraver appear in the lower right corner: "P. LAMBERT" and "DURRENS".
The 1-franc stamp depicts Saint Bernard's intercession from Paradiso 31:58–142. Here the saint replaces Beatrice as Dante's guide through the Empyrean and leads him to seek St. Mary. The stamp has text as follows: in the upper left corner: "MONACO 1965 / 1,00"; and in the lower right corner: "1265-1321 / DANTE ALIGHIERI". The name of the designer, "P. LAMBERT", appears vertically in the lower left corner and the name of the engraver appears vertically in the lower right corner: "MONVOISIN".

]]> COROS Chronicle 108 (June 1966): 56–57.]]>

70-cent stamp: at the top: "Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527); and at the bottom: "0,70€ / MONACO".
85-cent stamp: at the top: "Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375); and at the bottom: "0,85€ / MONACO".
1.30-euro stamp: at the top: "Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374); and at the bottom: "1,30€ / MONACO".

The names of the designer, printer, and engraver appear along the bottom edge of each stamp: "DE LA PATELLIERE" (Cyril de la Patelliere); "Phil@poste 2009"; and "BEAUJARD" (Yves Beaujard).]]> Dante Shows an Artist Some Unusual Clouds. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "IVAN AIVAZOVSKY 1817–1900" and "2016"; vertically along the right: "Dante Mostra o Artista nas Nuvens Incomuns, 1883"; and at the bottom: "MOÇAMBIQUE" and "100.00 MT". The stamp was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.]]> Miniature Sheet - Mozambique - 2016]]> 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 Dante and Beatrice 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-céntimos 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-guaraní 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.]]> La commedia illumina Firenze (The Comedy Illuminates Florence). 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".]]> This set of four postage stamps was issued by San Marino to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. The stamps feature the following illustrations by Gustave Doré: portrait of Dante (LIRE 40; engraved by Z. Vannelli); "Charon and the River Acheron" from Inferno 3:82–84 (LIRE 90; engraved by S. Vara); "The Eagle" from Purgatorio 9:29–30 (LIRE 130; engraved by A. Quieti); and "The Heaven of the Fixed Stars" from Paradiso 26:7–9 (LIRE 140; engraved by M. Colombati). The stamps all have the same caption around the illustration as follows: "VII CENTENARIO / NASCITA / DANTE ALIGHIERI / REP. DI S. MARINO" (7th centenary of the birth of Dante Alighieri, Republic of San Marino). Along the bottom edge of each stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.S.-OFF.CART.VAL.-ROMA 1965" (Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori).]]> 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 Inferno 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 Inferno 1: "mi / ritrovai / per una / selva / oscura," (I found myself in a dark wood). The first and third lines of Inferno 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.]]> Inferno: "Amor ch'a nullo amato amar perdona" (Love, which pardons no one loved from loving in return), Inferno 5:103; "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti" (You were not made to live like brutes), Inferno 26:119; and "E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" (And thence we came forth to look again at the stars), Inferno 34:139.]]> 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: "Eugène Delacroix / 1798 – 1863" and the denomination, "Db 25000"; to the left of Dante is the painting's title in Portuguese: "A Barca de / Dante, 1822". At the bottom is the country name and year: "S. Tomé e Príncipe 2013". The stamp was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.]]> Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell).]]> Divina commedia edited by Antonio Zatta and published in Venice from 1747 to 1758. Each stamp is captioned at the bottom as follows:

"Gaetano Zompini: Inferno Canto I / Dante ostacolato dalle fiere nella selva oscura" (Dante stopped by the three beasts in the dark wood)
"Michelangelo Schiavonio: Inferno Canto VIII / Il demone Flegiàs conduce Dante alla città di Dite (The demon Phlegyas ferries Dante to the city of Dis)
Michelangelo Schiavonio: Purgatorio Canto III / Dante incontra Manfredi, figlio di Federico II (Dante meets Manfred, the son of Frederick II)
Michelangelo Schiavonio: Purgatorio Canto XV, 2^o Cornice / L'Angelo della Misericordia appare a Dante e Virgilio (The Angel of Mercy appears to Dante and Virgil)
Michelangelo Schiavonio: Paradiso Canto XV / Dante nel cielo di Marte incontra Cacciaguida (Dante, in the Heaven of Mars, meets Cacciaguida)
Francesco Fontebasso: Paradiso Canto XXX / Dante e Beatrice nell'Empireo (Dante and Beatrice in the Empyrean)

All of the stamps share the same text as follows: vertically, at the left: "POSTE MAGISTRALI"; at the top: "SOVRANO MILITARE ORDINE DI MALTA" (Sovereign Military Order of Malta); and below the caption at the bottom: "Cartor - 2014". The denomination is in the lower right corner.]]> Divina commedia now in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy. The second stamp features Raphael's portrait of Dante in a detail from the artist's fresco painting The Parnassus. The third shows Paradise depicted in a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Vatican Library. Three thousand sets of the stamps were printed on numbered mini-sheets by Cartor, La Loupe, France.]]> https://www.stampworld.com/stamps/Sovereign-Order-of-Malta/Postage-stamps/g1705//]]> https://www.orderofmalta.int/stamps/vii-centenario-della-morte-di-dante-alighieri/]]>