Dante e Beatrice) by Olivotto of Beatrice greeting Dante with the city of Florence in the the distance.]]> This postcard features an illustration (Il saluto di Beatrice) by A. del Senno of Beatric greeting Dante. On the verso, the card has a quotation in Italian from Dante's Vita nuova (3:1): "'...E passando per una via volse gli occhi verso quella parte ove io era molto pauroso e... mi salutò virtuosamente tanto'." (And passing along a street, she turned her eyes toward where I stood timidly and ... she greeted me so miraculously).

The card is stamped with the 10-lire Vatican City postage stamp of 1965 and was postmarked in Vatican City on September 18, 1965.

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