VATICAN CITY

VATICAN CITY / CIVITATIS VATICANÆ - CITTÀ DEL VATICANO.

Protection of the Venetian world heritage.
Representation of Venice on a map by Egnatio Danti (1536-1586) kept in the Vatican Museums.
Stamps in a set of 6 issued on 06.06.1972.
Face value: 50 Italian lire x 4.

Catalogues
- Bolaffi No. 519.
- Michel Nos. 599-602.
- Sassone No. 519.
- Scott No. 520. (?)
- StampWorls Nos. 598-601.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS580.
- Unificato No. 519.
- Yvert et Tellier Nos. 537-540.

Egnatio or Ignazio Danti is the name by which Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti (1536-1586), mathematician, astronomer, cosmographer, painter and Italian Catholic religious is known. He painted 30 maps of the regions of the world (based on the printed editions published by Giacomo Gastaldi, Abraham Ortelius, Gerardus Mercator and others) in the Guardaroba of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and, later, others of the regions of Italy in the newly built Vaticane's Galleria delle Carte Geografiche, a project started at the beginning of the year 1580 and completed 18 months later; Each map included a perspective of the most important city in the region (the stamp represents one of them).