Italy

Repubblica Italiana

Issued on 5th September 1953 to mark an International Congress of Microbiology, held in Rome.

Depicts Agostino Bassi (1773-1856) sometimes called de Lodi, an Italian entomologist. He was a precursor of Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease.

Catalogue numbers:

Michel IT 899
Stamp Number IT 640
Yvert et Tellier IT 663
Stanley Gibbons IT 854
Unificato IT 726
Sassone IT 726

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