Italy - Stamps issued in 1952

Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in southern Europe. Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious center of western civilization as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, and for most of its post-Roman history, Italy was fragmented into numerous city and regional states, but was unified in 1861. In the late 19th century, Italy possessed a colonial empire. Italy plays a prominent role in the military, european and world cultural,  diplomatic and affairs.

150th anniversary of the birth of

Vincenzo Bellini

Palace of  Caserta and 

Statuary

 First International Exhibition of Sports Stamps.

30th Milan Trade Fair

Leonardo da Vinci, 500th birth anniv.

Cent. of the 1st postage stamps of Modena

and Parma.

Overseas Fair at Naples and 

Italian labor throughout the world.

26th Biennial Art Exhibition, Venice

30th International Sample Fair of Padua.

4th International Sample Fair of Trieste

16th Levant Fair, Bari

500th anniversary of the birth of Girolamo

Savonarola.

National Exhibition of the Alpine troops

First International Civil Aviation Conference, Rome

Centenary of the establishment of the first  Catholic mission in Ethiopia.

 Armed Forces Day

         
 Birth centenaries of Vincenzo Gemito and Antonio Mancini

Centenary of the deaths of the five Martyrs of Belfiore.