ITALY'S HISTORIC HOSPITALS COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS
The Italian Ministry of Work and Made in Italy has commissioned a new series of stamps honouring five of Italy's historic hospitals, as part of its “public spirit” series.
The stamps illustrate iconic features in each institution, all founded several centuries ago but still functioning as modern hospitals, fully equipped with avant-guard instruments for diagnosis and treatments.
The series, which was issued on the 24th November 2024, are veritable historic documents, reproducing images of the unique elements of each hospital, such as the historic archive of the Polyclinic (General Hospital) of Milan, founded in 1456, and with one of the most important historic archives in Europe as well as numerous works of art by celebrated artists, the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova of Florence, first founded in 1285, allegedly on land belonging to the Portinari family to which Dante's Beatrice belonged), the renaissance Civic Hospital of Saints John & Paul of Venice (which also incorporates a series of scientific and medical museums), the Santo Spirito in Sassia (Holy Spirit Hospital) in Rome, situated near the Vatican and believed to be one of Europe's oldest hospitals, dating back to the Dark Ages when it catered to “Saxon” pilgrims, and lastly, the Hospital of Santa Maria del Popolo degli Incurabili (the “Hospital of the Incurables”) in Naples founded in 1522 in the heart of the city.
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