Poste Italiane Question

Does anyone know whether Italy subscribes to the 10-year-after-death waiting period before issuing stamps? I have gone through their web site and nowhere is there any mention of such a policy. I have also written to their philatelic section but received no reply. Thanks in advance.

I don't know anything about an official policy. However, looking at Unificato, I see a 1998 joint issue with San Marino and the Vatican that features the Pope. The fact that it is the pope is certainly a possible cause for an exception, I realize.

I didn't recognize all of the persons featured on the various Stamp Day issues, but a couple of them at least look like they could be candidates for alive or recently deceased. Also seemingly possible with a couple of the various Italian-cinema stamps. (If there is any thread there, I believe the Pope stamp referenced above was a Stamp Day issue, as well.)

Otherwise, centenaries of births are widely featured, and those people seem to be uniformly dead.

So, to sum up, I have no real idea.

On October 24, 2009 Italy issued a set of stamps for "Italy 2009" Music Day. Two of the stamps featured recently deceased singers - Mino Reitano (who died in January 2009), and Luciano Pavarotti (who died in 2007).