Dante Alighieri. Minor Works (Malye proizvedeniya), 1968. In Russian

Данте Алигьери. Малые произведения.
Перевод: Е. М. Солонович.
Серия: Литературные памятники.
Художник: Э. Неизвестный.
Москва: Наука, 1968.
652 стр. Твердый переплет, суперобложка, увеличенный формат.
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Dante Alighieri. Minor Works (Malye proizvedeniya).
Translation by E. M. Solonovich.
Series: Literary Monuments.
Illustrator: E. Neizvestny.
Moscow: Nauka, 1968.
652 pp. Hardcover, dust jacket, enlarged format.

This 1968 volume is part of the prestigious Soviet academic series "Literary Monuments", published by the USSR Academy of Sciences through its "Nauka" publishing house. It presents the "Minor Works" of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) in Russian translation by E. M. Solonovich. The collection includes Dante's early and lesser-known, yet philosophically significant, works written in Latin and Italian, such as La Vita Nuova (The New Life), Il Convivio (The Banquet), De Vulgari Eloquentia (On the Eloquence of the Vernacular), De Monarchia (On Monarchy), and the Eclogues. A distinctive feature of this edition is the artistic design by the prominent and controversial Soviet sculptor and graphic artist Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (1925-2016), who had clashed with Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 but continued to work on significant projects. His illustrations add a modern, expressive visual layer to this classic text. As a publication in the authoritative "Literary Monuments" series, this book represents the high standard of Soviet philological scholarship and book art, making Dante's early oeuvre accessible to the Russian-speaking academic and literary community.