Dante on Stamps: A Septicentennial Catalog

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Dante on Stamps: A Septicentennial Catalog is the most comprehensive survey to date of postage stamps and stamp-like items depicting the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Based on the author’s website, Dante on Stamps, now in its eleventh year, this catalog delivers detailed, fully illustrated descriptions of more than 120 postage stamps and nearly one hundred cinderella and poster stamps. Published to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, this book brings a small, but important, corner of his iconographic legacy to a wide audience.