Parnakh, V.

Ispanskie i portugalskie poety, zhertvy inkvizitsii: stikhotvoreniia, stseny iz komedii, khroniki, opisaniia autodafe, protokoly, obvinitel’nye akty, prigovory [Spanish and Portuguese Poets, Victims of the Inquisition: Poems, Comedy Scenes, Chronicles, Descriptions of Auto-da-fé, Protocols, Accusatory Acts, Sentences]

Moscow–Leningrad: Academia, 1934. Item #1539

189, [3] pages: 11 leaves of illustrations. 18 cm. In Russian. Original black cloth publisher’s binding with copper-stamped vignette on front board and spine. In the original illustrated dust jacket designed by S. Shor. Dust jacket chipped with loss along the edges and spine tips. Cloth binding with minor rubbing to corners; one corner is damaged; spine ends lightly bumped. Small inventory note in ink to title page; interior clean and sound.

Published by the renowned Soviet publishing house Academia, this elegantly designed volume brings together a unique and haunting anthology of literary texts and archival materials related to Spanish and Portuguese poets who were persecuted and executed by the Inquisition. Compiled and translated by Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), a Russian Futurist poet, translator, and music critic born in Taganrog, the book includes poems, dramatic fragments, inquisitorial decrees, and first-hand accounts of executions. Parnakh situates the anthology as a memorial and protest against religious persecution, implicitly linking the historical violence of the Inquisition to contemporary repressions.

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