Maximum Card - Italy - 2011 - Poste Italiane
This maximum card was issued by Poste Italiane and features a monochromatic enlarged image of the 2011 Italy postage stamp designed by <span>Gaetano Ieluzzo</span>. The stamp <span>commemorates the "Giornata della filatelia 2011" (Philately Day 2011). In the center of the stamp is a reproduction of the 1965 Italian 500-lire postage stamp showing the Naples Bust of Dante. The background comprises a collage of the following designs: 1.) Lower left: the Italian cancellation of November 30, 2007, showing Dante in profile; 2.) Upper right: the Italian cancellation of October 23, 2009, showing a representation of Dante's hell; and 3.) Lower right: An envelope stamped with three 25-centesimi Italian "Proclamation of the Empire" postage stamps from 1938 designed by </span><span>Corrado Mezzana</span><span>. The maximum card's cancellation has the same design as the stamp.</span>
Poste Italiane
Gaetano Ieluzzo
Corrado Mezzana
Italian
Maximum Card
Italy
First Day Cover - Italy - 2011 - Masiello da Ercole
<span>This first day cover's hand-painted cachet by Nino Masiello da Ercole echoes the 2011 Italy commemorative stamp designed by <span>Gaetano Ieluzzo</span>. The cachet reproduces the 1965 500-lire Italy Dante stamp, the subject of which is the Naples Bust of the poet. To the left is <span>the Italian cancellation of November 30, 2007, showing Dante in profile, and to the right is <span>the Italian cancellation of October 23, 2009, showing a representation of Dante's hell. Below the cachet is "Pezzo unico" (unique item) and the artist's signature "Nino Masiello 2011". In the upper left corner of the envelope is the artist's logo.</span></span></span>
Nino Masiello da Ercole
Gaetano Ieluzzo
Italian
First Day Cover
Italy
Cancellation - Italy (Roma) - 2011 November 18
This cancellation mirrors the 2011 Italian postage stamp for the "GIORNATA DELLA FILATELIA" (Philately Day) designed by <span>Gaetano Ieluzzo</span>.<span> The cancellation reproduces the 1965 Italian 500-lire postage stamp showing the Naples Bust of Dante; the Italian cancellation of November 30, 2007, showing Dante in profile; the Italian cancellation of October 23, 2009, showing a representation of Dante's hell; and an envelope stamped with three 25-centesimi Italian "Proclamation of the Empire" postage stamps from 1938 designed by </span><span>Corrado Mezzana</span><span>.<br /></span>
Place of cancellation: Roma, Italy
Image from: <a href="http://e-filatelia.poste.it/showSchedaProdotto.asp?id_prodotto=16480" target="_blank">http://e-filatelia.poste.it/showSchedaProdotto.asp?id_prodotto=16480</a>
Gaetano Ieluzzo
Corrado Mezzana
Italian
Cancellation
Italy
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2011
<p>This postage stamp is the 25th in a series issued to commemorate the Giornata della Filatelia (Philately Day). In the center of the stamp is a reproduction of the 1965 Italian 500-lire postage stamp showing the Naples Bust of Dante. The background comprises a collage of the following designs: (1) lower left: the Italian cancellation of November 30, 2007, showing Dante in profile; (2) upper right: the Italian cancellation of October 23, 2009, showing a representation of Dante's hell; and (3) lower right: an envelope stamped with three 25-centesimi Italian "Proclamation of the Empire" postage stamps from 1938 designed by Corrado Mezzana.</p>
<p>In the upper left corner of the stamp is text as follows: "GIORNATA / DELLA / FILATELIA / PROGETTO / DANTE" (Philately Day Dante Project); across the bottom of the stamp is "LA DIVINA COMMEDIA ATTRAVERSO LA FILATELIA" (The <em>Divina commedia</em> through philately). Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2011" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the designer: "G. IELUZZO" (Gaetano Ieluzzo).</p>
Denomination: € 0,60 (0.60 EUR)
Perforation: 11 (diecut)
Printing process: Six-color rotogravure
Print run: 2,800,000
Gaetano Ieluzzo
Corrado Mezzana
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Rome, Italy)
Italian
Postage Stamp
Italy