Nunziatella Military School, Naples
ITALY , 1987, the 2nd centenary of
the Nunziatella Military School of Naples, Scott 1727
The Nunziatella is so named from a chapel on the grounds, "the little chapel of the Annunciation." The noblewoman Anna Mendozza Marchesana della Valle had this built in 1588, and gave it to the Jesuits as their novitiate. After the Suppression of the Jesuits, it entered into other hands, and in 1787 became one of the foremost military academies in Europe.
ITALY 2000, the 150th anniversary of its foundation, Scott 2340
The copy of the Jesuit biweekly publication La Civiltà Cattolica is read by the Vatican Secretary of State before publication, and so it is considered an indication of the mind of the Vatican on issues the Vatican itself has not yet officially addressed.
ITALY, 1988, to honor the E. Quirino Visconti School, Scott 1730
The building shown on this stamp has been known for ages as the Roman College, the first and most important educational work of the Society of Jesus. It has long since passed into the hands of the state and has until recently been shared by two entities: the National Library and the Liceo E. Q. Visconti. The books given up by the Society at the time of the Suppression became the nucleus of the National Library of Italy in Rome. The building dates from 1583-1585 along with the Church of St. Ignatius in the same block, once the college chapel. The complex was the gift of Pope Gregory XIII, so that what began as the Roman College took the name of the Pontifical Gregorian University, located in this building until 1870. More