Inferno 24:77–78: "LA DIMANDA ONESTA SI DEE SE- / GVIR CON L'OPERA TACENDO" (The honest request must be followed by silent work).]]> o CENTENARIO / DANTESCO" (7th Dante centenary); at the bottom: "1265-1965" and "S. CRESTANI".]]> 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).]]> 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 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.]]> o CONGRESSO · / TREVISO-VITTORIO / 8-11 SETTEM. 1928-VI" (33rd congress, Treviso-Vittorio, September 8–11, 1928, Year VI of the Fascist Era). The printer is recorded at the bottom: "SOC. AN. LONGO · ZOPPELLI - TREVISO". Malorzo records versions printed in black, blue, and red.]]> 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)."]]> Purgatorio 6:80: "SOL PER LO DOLCE SVON DELLA SVA TERRA" (merely for the sweet sound of his city). At the top is the chapter's name: "SOCIETÀ NAZIONALE / DANTE ALIGHIERI / COMITATO MANTOVANO".]]> ANTE ALIGHIERI'"; vertically along the right: "Curityba-Paraná-Brasil"; along the bottom: "VIo CENTENARIO"; below the portrait is: "14 Settembre 1321" (September 14, 1321, Dante’s traditional death day). The name and location (Curitiba) of the printer appears in the lower left corner, however the author could not read it.]]>
Both stamps use the "somewhat oldwomanly likeness" of Dante drawn by Stefano Tofanelli and engraved by Raffaello Morghen in the eighteenth century.1

The English stamp has the portrait in a frame with the masks of tragedy and comedy in the upper corners and a scroll and horn at the bottom. The stamp has text as follows: at top: "POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS / ITALIAN"; at bottom: "DANTE ALLIGHIERI 1265-1321 / TOBLER / SWISS MILK / CHOCOLATE / No 370 · SERIE 31 · No 361-372".

The other stamp is in Ido, a derivative of Esperanto, and has a simpler frame. The stamp has text as follows: at top: "POETI E PENSISTI / · ITALIA ·"; at bottom: "DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321 / TOBLER / SUISIANA LAKTO / CHOKOLADO / LINGUO INTERNACIONA ‹IDO› / (REFORM-ESPERANTO) / SERIO XXXI No 361–372 No 370".]]> The Portraits of Dante Compared with the Measurements of His Skull and Reclassified, Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology 10 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921): 48–49, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001218985. Mather incorrectly ascribes the portrait to Antonio Zatta's 1757 Venice edition of Dante's works; Tofanelli was born in 1752 and Morghen in 1758.]]>
  • No. 9: Bust of Dante
  • No. 10: Dante's house in Florence
  • No. 11: Dante's tomb in Ravenna
  • No. 12: Bust of Beatrice; quotation from Vita nuova 26:5
  • No. 13: Vision of Beatrice; quotation from Paradiso 21:1–2
  • No. 14: Map of Trieste; quotation from Inferno 9:113–114
  • No. 15: Map of Trent; quotation from Inferno 20:61–63
  • No. 16: Vision from Purgatorio; quotation from Purgatorio 29:121–122
All of the stamps have either "ONORATE L’ALTISSIMO POETA" (Honor the most exalted poet); a reference to the sixth centenary of Dante's death (or both); dates; and other descriptive text and/or quotations from Dante's works as enumerated above.

Malorzo lists four varieties of this issue: type "a": printed in blue on yellow paper; type "b": printed in green-gray on white paper; type "c": printed in brown on white paper (shown here); and type "d": printed in black on white paper.]]> Purgatorio)]]> Postage Stamp - United States - 1965]]>