by Francisco Delicado · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495139009
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«La lozana andaluza» is the Spanish Renaissance dialogue novel by Francisco Delicado, published by Lorenzana in hardcover (263 pages, in Spanish).
Written in dialogue form, the work follows Lozana, a young Andalusian woman who settles in Renaissance Rome and earns her living as a courtesan. Delicado portrays with irony and realism the daily life, trades, customs and popular milieus of the city.
The work was originally published in 1528. This Spanish edition was edited by Lorenzana, Seville, in 1998.
For readers of classic Spanish literature interested in realistic and critical portraits of Renaissance society.
Francisco Delicado was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance. Little is known about his life. He was born in Cordoba, Spain and, for uncertain reasons, he moved to Rome, where he Italianized his surname to Delicado. After the sack of Rome, he went to Venice where he wrote his novel Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman, that continues on the lines of the novel in dialogue exemplified by Celestina. The book is a social and historical portrait of Rome and its dark side in the first years of the 16th century, and one of the first works of the picaresque novel. He was also a disciple of Antonio de Nebrija and editor of books such as Amadis de Gaula (1533), Celestina (1531–1534), Primaleon (1534) and some medical treatises like El modo de adoperare el legno de India and De consolatione infirmorum.
