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Poster Stamp - U. Marucelli & Co. (1921)
These poster stamps make up nos. 9–16 in the twenty-second series of "MARCHE NAZIONALISTE" (nationalist stamps) issued by U. Marucelli & Co. of Milan. The stamps feature various subjects related to Dante, as follows:No. 9: Bust of Dante
No. 10:…
Tags: 1921; Italy; U. Marucelli & Co. (Milan, Italy); ZNC
Poster Stamp - U. Marucelli & Co.
This poster stamp is no. 4 in the second series of "MARCHE NAZIONALISTE" (nationalist stamps) featuring "ITALIANI ILLUSTRI" (illustrious Italians) issued by U. Marucelli & Co. of Milan. The stamp features a portrait of Dante and a propaganda…
Poster Stamp - Società nazionale Dante Alighieri
This series of poster stamps was issued by the Società Dante Alighieri, probably in the 1910s. The stamps depict a woman reading a book to a group of children, a father and son, and mother with baby. Behind the group is a bust of Dante, a book, and…
Tags: 1910s; Italy; Società Dante Alighieri
Poster Stamp - Società Dante Alighieri, Comitato mantovano
This set of poster stamps was issued by the Mantua chapter of the Società Dante Alighieri, probably in 1930 when the SDA's 35th congress was held in that city. The stamps depict a scene from the base of Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent…
Tags: 1930; Italy; Sculpture; Società Dante Alighieri; Zocchi, Cesare
Poster Stamp - Società Dante Alighieri, 33rd Congress (1928)
This set of poster stamps was issued for the Società Dante Alighieri's 33rd congress held in Treviso-Vittorio, Italy, in 1928. The stamps feature a left-facing portrait of Dante below a sunrise and text as follows: "SOCIETÀ NAZIONALE / 'DANTE…
Poster Stamp - Società Dante Alighieri
This poster stamp was issued by the Società Dante Alighieri probably in the lates 1920s. The stamp shows a portrait of Dante in the center of a round shield above a sword. In the background is a sailboat on the Gulf of Naples with Mount Vesuvius in…
Poster Stamp - SI
This poster stamp has the initials "SI" (possibly for "Società italiana"?) in blue centered among portraits of four Italian authors in red: Dante Alighieri, Lodovico Ariosto, Luigi Pirandello, and Alessandro Manzoni. The portrait of Dante is based on…
Poster Stamp - S. Crestani
This poster stamp was designed by S. Crestani to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1965. The stamp shows a scene with Dante and Virgil next to a larger portrait of Dante and has text as follows: at the top: "VIIo CENTENARIO /…
Tags: 1965; Crestani, S.; Italy
Poster Stamp - Opera nazionale pro orfani infanti
These poster stamps were issued in Italy around 1918 to promote the Opera nazionale pro orfani infanti (National Work for Orphaned Infants). The stamps feature a version of Giotto's portrait of Dante with the addition of a right hand holding a stem…
Poster Stamp - Monumento a Dante
This poster stamp was issued in 1915 as part of a large series promoting the Italian irredentist campaign to annex the cities of Trent and Trieste and surrounding regions back to Italy. The stamp depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in…
Tags: 1915; Italy; Sculpture; Zocchi, Cesare
Poster Stamp - Manifestazioni culturali della gioventù europea
This poster stamp was issued for the "Manifestazioni culturali della gioventù europea" (cultural events for European youth). Held June 18–30, 1942, in Weimar and Florence, the meeting brought together members of the national fascist youth movements…
Poster Stamp - Edizioni Fascio
This gold-colored, embossed poster stamp was issued by Edizioni Fascio in Bologna, Italy, to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Dante's death in 1921. Malorzo records two versions: type "a" has a right-facing portrait of Dante with dates "MCCCXXI -…
Tags: 1921; Edizioni Fascio (Bologna, Italy); Italy; ZNC
Poster Stamp - Delandre
This poster stamp, likely from around 1920, is in the style of Delandre, pseudonym of Gaston Fontanille, and may have been issued by him.The stamp depicts Cesare Zocchi's 1896 monument to Dante in Trent with the flag of the Kingdom of Italy…
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…
Poster Stamp - Cassa nazionale di previdenza per la invalidità e la vecchiaia degli operai and Società Dante Alighieri
This set of poster stamps was issued around 1903 to promote a loan program benefiting the Cassa nazionale di previdenza per la invalidità e la vecchiaia degli operai (National Insurance Fund for the Disability and Old Age of Workers) and the Società…
Poster Stamp - C. Borrani
This poster stamp commemorates the 600th anniversary of Dante's visit to San Gimignano as an ambassador from Florence as well as the death of Blessed Bartolo in 1300. The stamp shows the coat of arms of San Gimignano above a portrait of Bartolo and…
Tags: 1899; C. Borrani (Florence, Italy); Delille; Giotto; Italy
Poster Stamp - Bertieri & Vanzetti
This poster stamp was issued by Bertieri & Vanzetti of Milan and features the Naples Bust of Dante and a propaganda slogan. The stamp has text as follows: "ITALIANI / DATE LA PREFERENZA / ALLE INDUSTRIE / NAZIONALI" (Italians give preference to…
Poster Stamp - Belloni-Marioni
This poster stamp was issued by Carlo Belloni of Milan and features a paraphrase from Inferno 33:80, "Italia! Il bel paese dove il sì suona......" (Italy! The beautiful country where the "sì" is heard......) followed by the propagandistic phrase "È…
Poster Stamp - 1a Armata (Prima Armata)
This poster stamp, probably issued in late 1919 or 1920, honors the Prima Armata (First Army), a division of the Italian Army responsible during World War I for the area around the Italian-Swiss-Austro-Hungarian border. The stamp depicts Cesare…
Tags: 1919; 1920; Italy; Sculpture; Zocchi, Cesare
Postcard - Sborgi-Olivotto
This postcard features an illustration (Dante e Beatrice) by Olivotto of Beatrice greeting Dante with the city of Florence in the the distance.
Postcard - Sborgi-A. del Senno
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…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2021
This set of three stamps issued by Italy commemorates the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. Poste Italiane describes the stamps as follows:
Inferno: "[P]articolare di un'opera del pittore Corrado Veneziano dal titolo 'L'Inferno, evocando…
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…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2011
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…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2009
This postage stamp was issued as part of a joint issue with San Marino and Vatican City for the Giornata della Lingua Italiana (Celebration Day of the Italian Language) in 2009. It is also the fourth issue in the Festival internazionale della…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2009
This postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi/Akademie Deutsch-Italienischer Studien in Merano, Italy. The stamp shows the academy's logo consisting of overlapping profile…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1990
This postage stamp celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Società Dante Alighieri in 1889. The stamp shows a bust of Dante (based on the Naples Bust), an open book, and a globe, symbolizing the goals of the society in spreading…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1987
This postage stamp was issued as part of a four-stamp set celebrating Italian piazzas. The stamp shows Piazza dei Signori (also known as Piazza Dante) in Verona. In the center of the piazza is a statue of Dante sculpted by Ugo Zannoni and erected in…
Postage Stamp - Italy - 1972
This series of postage stamps—issued during the 1972 UNESCO International Book Year—commemorates the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first three editions of Dante's Divina commedia.1 The first edition was printed in Foligno by Johann…