by Francisco Delicado · SAPE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474617788
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«Retrato de la Lozana andaluza» is the Renaissance satirical novel by Francisco Delicado, published by SAPE in paperback, in Spanish.
A novel starring Lozana, an Andalusian woman who arrives in sixteenth-century Rome and becomes a courtesan. Thanks to her wit, she moves among the nobility, the clergy and the merchants, while the author traces a satirical vision of corruption, hypocrisy and sexuality in Renaissance society, with a realistic and colloquial style.
Original work from 1528, also titled «La Lozana andaluza»; this Spanish edition was published in 1986.
For readers of Spanish literature classics and the Renaissance who seek a social satire with erotic overtones.
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.
