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/]]> These two stamps are part of a set of six stamps celebrating paintings by Raphael. One stamp shows Raphael's The Parnassus and the other shows his Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Both frescoes are in the Stanza della Segnatura (Room of the Signatura), part of the so-called "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. In The Parnassus, Dante is the first standing figure from the left in the upper row. In the Disputation, he is the eighth from the right in the lower row, although he is difficult to distinguish in this stamp.

Across the bottom of the 75-dirham stamp is a caption as follows: "
Raffaello: Parnassus"; across the bottom of the 2-riyals stamp is "Raffaello: The Dispute". At the bottom of both stamps are the denomination and country in English and in Arabic.]]>
The Parnassus)]]> Disputation of the Holy Sacrament)]]>
The Parnassus. Below the portrait is text as follows: "Dante / VII Centenario della nascita" (7th centenary of [his] birth).]]> 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 Parnassus showing the poets Dante, Homer, and Virgil. The stamp has text as follows: "សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិតកម្ពុជា" (People's Republic of Kampuchea); vertically, along the left side: "500e Anniv. du peintre RAPHAËL" (500th anniversary of [the] painter Raphael; the Khmer equivalent appears vertically, along the right side); "០,៛២០" (0,20 riel), "REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE / DU KAMPUCHEA" (People's Republic of Kampuchea), and "020 / RIEL".]]> ០,៛២០ (0.20 KHR)]]> 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.]]> 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).]]>