This series of seals presumably was produced by or for a local chapter of the Società Dante Alighieri in the 1990s. Each seal features Giotto's portrait of Dante, the letters "SDA" vertically along the left side, and the year at the bottom. The seals were printed in sheets of thirty. Considering the provenance of the sheets in the author's collection, these seals likely are from Argentina.]]> Divina commedia; above the wreath are the coat of arms of Chile on the left and of the Kingdom of Italy on the right. A burning torchière occupies the left side of the vignette. The stamp has text as follows: at the top: "SESTO CENTENARIO / ·MORTE· / DANTE ALLIGHIERI" (sixth centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri); at the bottom: "'ONORATE / L'ALTISSIMO POETA' / 1321-Santiago Cile-1921" (Honor the most exalted poet).]]> This cinderella stamp from the fictional nation of P.R. Tongo features Giotto's portrait of Dante.]]> Aeneid 6:823: "·VINCET·AMOR·PATRIÆ·" (love of country conquers). At the bottom is "·SOCIETÀ·DANTE·ALIGHIERI" and the printer's name and city: "A. FUSETTI-MILANO". Antonio Fusetti's printing firm was established in 1922.]]> Annuario industriale della Provincia di Milano (Milan: Unione industriale fascista della Provincia di Milano, 1933), p. 666, https://books.google.com/books?id=CXGw_2BsrwQC&pg=PA666&lpg=PA666.]]> This poster stamp, likely from around 1920, is in the style of Delandre, pseudonym of Gaston Fontanille, and may have been issued by him.

The stamp depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent with the flag of the Kingdom of Italy surrounding the pedestal. At the bottom of the vignette is a quotation from Giosuè Carducci's poem from the same year "Per il monumento di Dante a Trento" (For the Monument of Dante at Trent): "Dante, si spazia da ben cinquecento / anni de l'Alpi sul tremendo spalto. / Ed or s'è fermo, e par ch'aspetti a Trento. / G. Carducci" (Dante, for the span of five hundred years has wandered the tremendous rampart of the Alps. And now he is stopped and seems to wait in Trent.)]]> o CENTENARIO / DANTESCO" (7th Dante centenary); at the bottom: "1265-1965" and "S. CRESTANI".]]> This set of cinderella stamps was issued by the Federazione italiana contro la tubercolosi e Consorzi provinciali antitubercolari (Italian Federation Against Tuberculosis and Provincial Antituberculosis Consortium) for the "XXVIII CAMPAGNA NAZIONALE ANTITUBERCOLARE" (28th National Antituberculosis Campaign) in 1965. Funds raised by the sale of the stamps went toward prevention campaigns and aid for the sick.

The ten stamps each have a portrait of Dante by a different artist: Giotto, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico di Michelino, Luca Signorelli, Raphael, Domenico Petarlini (here credited as "D. Perterlin"), Vittorio Guaccimanni, and Adolfo de Carolis. One portrait is an anonymous miniature from a fifteenth-century manuscript (MS Riccardiano 1040) now in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence; another is the anonymous Naples Bust.

The series was printed by Panetto & Petrelli of Spoleto, Italy, and issued in two formats: a booklet containing one set of stamps and a sheet repeating the set four times.]]> Il francobollo antitubercolare dal 1931 al 2000: catalogo-guida (N.p.: Agostino Merlin, 2010), p. 26.]]>
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Italian government approved the creation of loan programs to benefit various causes. These stamps was produced to advertise a particular program benefiting the Società Dante Alighieri which promoted Italian language and culture.]]> Pasquale Villari, "La 'Dante Alighieri' ad Udine," Nuova antologia: rivista di lettere, scienze ed arti 767 (December 1, 1903): 420–421.]]> This poster stamp commemorates the 600th anniversary of Dante's visit to San Gimignano as an ambassador from Florence as well as the death of Blessed Bartolo in 1300. The stamp shows the coat of arms of San Gimignano above a portrait of Bartolo and Giotto's fresco portrait of Dante. The text reads as follows: "VI CENTENARIO / dell'Ambasceria di / DANTE ALIGHIERI / e della morte del concitt.no / STO BARTOLO / SANGIMIGNANO 1899" (6th centenary of the embassy of Dante Alighieri and of the death of the fellow citizen Blessed Bartolo). The stamp was designed by Delille and printed by C. Borrani of Florence, Italy. Malorzo records a black version and a dark brown version.

The Florentine Guelfs sent Dante as an ambassador to San Gimignano where he arrived on May 7, 1300. Dante's mission was to announce the upcoming parliament where a new captain of the Guelf League of Tuscany would be elected and to solicit representatives to the parliament from San Gimignano (The Dante Encyclopedia). A contemporary of Dante, Blessed Bartolo was a Tuscan priest who dedicated much of his life to helping lepers until he succumbed to the disease in 1300.

]]> Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study with a Concise Iconography (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Ltd.; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), p. 73–150.]]> The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. by Richard Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000), p. 897.]]> This poster stamp was issued by Carlo Belloni of Milan and features a paraphrase from Inferno 33:80, "Italia! Il bel paese dove il sì suona......" (Italy! The beautiful country where the "sì" is heard......) followed by the propagandistic phrase "È dovere di ogni Italiano preferire le industrie paesane." (It is the duty of every Italian to give preference to domestic industries). The stamp depicts a portrait of Dante (probably based on the Naples Bust), Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent, and a branch. The stamp was engraved by F. Marioni.]]> Inferno) and 34 members of the Centro italiano di filatelia tematica exhibited their collections of stamps illustrating each canto of the Inferno (part of the Progetto Dante). The exhibition was a collaboration of the local philatelic circle, Circolo culturale filatelico numismatico "Ennio Giunchi", and the national thematic organization, Centro italiano di filatelia tematica. The painting depicted on the card and on the cancellation shows Dante with the faces of souls in hell and is the work of Patrizio Virzì, an artist from Cesena, Italy. The painting is titled L'Inferno di Dante. The card is stamped with the 2009 Italian stamp from the Italy-San Marino-Vatican City joint issue.]]> Romagna Noi, October 24, 2011, http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/cultura-eventi/723331/L-inferno-diventa-un-francobollo.html (accessed August 18, 2013).]]> Purgatorio 7:17. At the bottom of the stamp is text as follows: "VI·CENTENA– / RIO·DANTESCO / MCCCXXI–MCMXXI / COMITATO·DI· / MONTEVIDEO·" (6th Dante centenary 1321–1921, Montevideo chapter)."]]> The Parnassus. The stamp is printed directly onto the cover envelope which has a cachet of Giotto's portrait of Dante with text as follows: "FAMOUS VICTIMS / WHO DIED OF MALARIA" and "DANTE ALIGHIERI / Italian poet, died of malaria in 1321". The cover also shows a mosquito.]]> Universal Philatelic Cover Society cachet.]]>
The stamp features a portrait of Dante superimposed on a map of the world with lines focusing on Italy. The stamps have text as follows: upper right corner: “CENT. 50”; at the bottom: “1893-1985 / SOCIETÀ DANTE ALIGHIERI”; along the bottom edge: “DIS C. RIMOLDI” and “A.N.F.E.”.]]> GIORNATA DELLA DANTE ALIGHIERI" (Dante Alighieri Day). Based on its style, the stamp may be from the 1970s.]]>
  • 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.]]> This circular cancellation features a right-facing portrait of Dante based on Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. The portrait on the cancellation is reversed from the original. The portrait is surrounded by text as follows: "POSTE VATICANE", "DIE EMISSIONIS" (day of issue), and "GIORNATA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA" (Day of the Italian Language).]]> This rectangular cancellation features a right-facing portrait of Dante based on the portrait in Raphael's fresco painting The Parnassus. The design echoes the 1965 Mexico postage stamp. To the right of the portrait is text: "DANTE ALIGHIERI / 1265 – 1321 / DIA DE EMISION" (day of issue).]]> This circular cancellation depicts a scene from the beginning of the 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. The design echoes the 2009 joint-issue Italy–San Marino–Vatican City postage stamp. The text is as follows: "GIORNATA / DELLA / LINGUA ITALIANA" (Day of the Italian Language), "poste" (mail), and "san marino".]]> This circular cancellation depicts a scene from the beginning of the 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. The design echoes the 2009 joint-issue Italy–San Marino–Vatican City postage stamp. Around the central design are "Italia / 2009 / DANTE ALIGHIERI", "Giorno di emissione" (day of issue), "ROMA EUR", and "FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELLA FILATELIA" (International Festival of Philately).]]> This circular cancellation features left-facing portraits of Dante and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe surrounded by text: "39012 MERANO CENTRO-MERAN ZENTRUM (BZ)", "50oANNIVERSARIO FONDAZIONE ACCADEMIA DI STUDI ITALO-TEDESCHI" (50th anniversary of the foundation of the Academy of Italian-German Studies), "AKADEMIE DEUTSCH-ITALIENISCHER STUDIEN" (Academy of German-Italian Studies), and "Goethe / 9.5.2009 / Dante / Giorno di emissione" (day of issue).]]> This square cancellation features a left-facing portrait of Dante surrounded by the following text: "FIRENZE V.R."; "FESTA DELLA TOSCANA" (Tuscany Festival); "PROFILO DI DANTE" (profile of Dante); and "MOSTRA FILATELICA E CARTOLINE" (Philatelic exhibition and postcards).]]> This circular cancellation celebrates the 523rd anniversary of the first printed edition of the Divina commedia. The edition was printed in 1472 in Foligno by Johann Neumeister and Evangelista Angelini. The central image is of an open printed book which is surrounded by text: "06034 FOLIGNO (PG) / 29.4.1995" and "523o ANNUALE PRIMA EDIZIONE A STAMPA DELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA" (523rd anniversary of the first printed edition of the Divina commedia).]]> This circular cancellation features a portrait of Dante—based on the Naples Bust—with a globe and open book. The design echoes the 1990 Italian postage stamp issued to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Società Dante Alighieri. Around the central design are "ROMA FILATELICO" (Rome Philatelic) and "CENTENARIO SOCIETÀ DANTE ALIGHIERI" (Società Dante Alighieri centenary).]]>