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Cancellation - Italy (Trent) - 1996 October 11
This square cancellation commemorates the centenary of and depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent, Italy.
Cancellation - Russia (Moscow) - 2015 May 5
Place of cancellation: Moscow, Russia, 101000
Miniature Sheet - Solomon Islands - 2017
This miniature sheet is one of an extensive series depicting "Masters of Renaissance" and their works. While there is no Dante stamp in the series, he is depicted in sculpture, with Francesco Petrarca, on the miniature sheet for the Raphael stamp.…
Poster Stamp - Comitato centrale antiblasfemo di Verona
This poster stamp was issued by the Comitato centrale antiblasfemo di Verona (Central Antiblasphemy Committe of Verona) after 1930. In that year, Italy enacted Article 724 of the Penal Code, making it an offense to publicly blaspheme against the…
Cinderella Stamp - Società Dante Alighieri "Per l'assistenza agli emigranti"
This cinderella stamp (possibly part of a series) was issued for the benefit of the Società Dante Alighieri and "Per l'assistenza agli emigranti" (for the assistance of emigrants). The stamp features a portrait of a laborer holding a hammer with…
Poster Stamp - Società Italiana "Dante Alighieri", Curityba, Paraná, Brasil
This poster stamp was issued by the Curitiba, Brazil, chapter of the Società Dante Alighieri to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the poet's death in 1921. The stamp features a portrait of Dante surrounded by text as follows: vertically along the…
Postage Stamp - Andorra - 2018
The Principality of Andorra issued this stamp in 2018 to celebrate the country’s diversity and Italian community. Designed by Jordi Casamajor, the stamp features a portrait of Dante surrounded by text as follows: at the top: “Principat d’Andorra…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2017
This stamp is part of a set of eight celebrating 90 years of Mickey Mouse in Italy (1928–2018). 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…
First Day Cover - Italy - 1972 - Grolla Club
Grolla Club no. 179
Maximum Card - Kyrgyzstan - 2015 - Kyrgyz Express Post
Domenico Petarlini's painting Dante in Exile. Issued by Kyrgyz Express Post. Designed by Elnur Isakov. "Maximum Card No 8". Limited to 300 pieces.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Universal Editrice
The cachet on this first day cover features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Above the portrait is text as follows: "VIII CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA DI DANTE…
First Day Cover - Kyrgyzstan - 2015 - Kyrgyz Express Post
Issued by Kyrgyz Express Post. Designed by Olga Derej. Brief biography of Dante in Kyrgyz and English on back. Limited to 400 pieces.
First Day Cover - Mexico - 1965 - Raphael
The cachet on this first day cover features Raphael's portrait of Dante from the artist's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Below the portrait is text as follows: "PRIMER DIA DE EMISIÓN / 23-11-65".
Miniature Sheet - São Tomé and Príncipe - 1983
Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament is printed across the bottom of this miniature sheet. Dante is depicted in the fresco near the right side just behind the standing figure in yellow robes.
Cinderella Stamp - Marca per la ricostruzione
This cinderella stamp was issued between 1945 and 1950 to raise funds for reconstruction after World War II. The Naples Bust of Dante is shown below the text “MARCA PER LA / RICOSTRUZIONE” (reconstruction stamp). Open space was left at the bottom of…
First Day Cover - United States - 1982 - Ranto
Beginning in the 1960s, prolific collector and cachet maker John Ranto of Hamilton Township, New Jersey, produced first day covers made from postal bulletins and display posters. According to online sales descriptions by Trenton Stamp and Coin,…
First Day Cover - Paraguay - Centro Filatélico del Paraguay
The cachet on this first day cover, issued by the Centro Filatélico del Paraguay, repeats the portraits of four famous authors from the stamps it was designed to bear.
Miniature Sheet - Central African Republic - 2016
This miniature sheet commemorates the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). The sheet featues four of the artist's paintings:La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830)
Chevaux arabes combattant dans une écurie (1860)
Dernières paroles de…
Postage Stamp - Central African Republic - 2016
This postage stamp was issued by the Central African Republic as part of a series to commemorate the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. The stamp reproduces his first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque…
Miniature Sheet - Umm al-Quwain - 1972
Miniature sheets were issued for the entire set of 35 Umm al-Quwain Divina commedia stamps but they are difficult to find.
Cancellation - San Marino - 2015 November 27
For the 125th Veronafil exhibition.
Poster Stamp - Langenscheidts Sprachführer
This poster stamp was issued by the publisher Langenscheidt to advertise a series of phrasebooks that were part of the Toussaint-Langenscheidt language-learning method. The stamp shows Dante, representing the Italian language, sitting on a bench…
Miniature Sheet - Kyrgyzstan - 2015
This miniature sheet shows Henry Holiday's 1884 painting Dante and Beatrice. Along the top is "750 лет со дня рождения Данте Алигьери / 750th Birth Anniversary of Dante Alighieri"; vertically, along the right side, is "Генри Холидей. Данте и Беатриче…
Maximum Card - Italy - 1965 - Circolo filatelico fiorentino (Florence, Italy)
This maximum card was issued by the philatelic group Circolo filatelico fiorentino and postmarked in Florence on October 21, 1965. The card features a portrait of Dante signed "G.P.". Above the portrait is "1265" and "1965" and below is "VIIo…