by Francisco Delicado · S. A. de Promoción y Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788477584391
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«Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza» is the novel by Francisco Delicado, published by S. A. de Promoción y Ediciones in hardcover (284 pages, in Spanish).
The novel revolves around Lozana, a shrewd woman who makes her way in Renaissance Rome. Delicado offers a realistic view of the life of a courtesan and of the society of the time, with love and sexuality as the axes of the narrative. The protagonist is a survivor in a world of challenges and opportunities.
This 1992 edition belongs to the Grandes Maestros de la Literatura Española collection. The work was originally published in 1528.
Aimed at readers of classic Spanish and Renaissance literature, especially those seeking a realistic view of 16th-century 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.
