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Cancellation - Italy (Rimini) - 2021 July 15
Cancellation featuring portrait of Dante from Marcello Toninelli's comic strip version of the Divina commedia. Celebrates Cartoon Club Rimini – 37th Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Animazione, del Fumetto e dei Games (International Festival of…
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…
Cancellation - Italy (Torino) - 2021 June 28
Place of cancellation: Torino, Italy, 10121
Cancellation - Italy (Mezzolombardo) - 2021 March 25
Place of cancellation: Mezzolombardo, Italy, 38017
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 - 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…
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.
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…
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
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…
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…
Cancellation - Italy (Ravenna) - 2005 September 24
Dante's tomb in Ravenna.
Cancellation - Italy (Cesena) - 2011 October 29
The painting depicted on this cancellation shows Dante with the faces of souls in hell and is the work of Patrizio Virzì, an artist from Cesena, Italy. The painting is titled L'Inferno di Dante.
Cancellation - Italy (Verona) - 2015 November 27
For the 125th Veronafil exhibition.
First Day Cover - Italy - 1965 - Ansaldo Dopolavoro Aziendale, Sezione Filatelica
This first day cover was issued by the Ansaldo Dopolavoro Aziendale, Sezione Filatelica (Ansaldo Company Recreation Club, Philatelic Section). The cachet shows Dante reading a book; in the background is an unrolled scroll with text as follows: "7o…