Georgian Post issues stamp featuring Dante’s effigy by Georgian painter Sergo Kobuladze
A total of 10,000 copies of the post stamp have been issued. Each copy costs 3,7 GEL. Photo: Embassy of Italy in Georgia
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The Georgian Post has issued a special stamp featuring Dante’s effigy by famous Georgian painter Sergo Kobuladze.
The Embassy of Italy in Georgia has tweeted:
The Week of the Italian Language in #Georgia concluded at @TbilisiU. Presented a special stamp by the Georgian Post Office, which shows Dante’s effigy by the famous ???????? painter Sergo Kobuladze, and a bilingual???????????????? commemorative edition of Dante’s "Vita Nuova". #SLIM2021 #Dante700 pic.twitter.com/oJkMKH0Nn4
— Italy in Georgia (@ItalyinGeorgia) October 28, 2021
The stamp was issued to mark the 700th anniversary of Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher and political thinker Dante Alighieri who is best known for the monumental epic poem The Divine Comedy.
A bilingual edition of Dante's Vita Nuova was also issued with Kobuladze's porrit of the Italian author. Photo: Embassy of Italy in Georgia
Kobuladze’s portrait of Dante made in 1950 has great success at Venice Biennale in Italy in 1956. A total of 10,000 copies of the post stamp have been issued. Each stamp costs 3,7 GEL.