The edition of the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea of Zaragoza, at the office of Jorge Coci at the expense of Pedro Bernuz and Bartolomé de Nájera, 17th of june 1545, is the first Spanish illustrated edition of the Tragicomedia that returns to the iconographic plan of the Burgos Comedia, characterised by page-wide scenes directly linked to the t…[Read more]

Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called «celestinesque genre», in which it almost invariably serves as foreplay for intercourse. This motif evidences an erotisation of violence that, according to a significant portion of early-modern erotic poetry, acts as a stimulant of male desire. However, this a…[Read more]

Ubica “Celestina” en la tradición alemana de la “Historie”.

By applying the same principles used in the first census of the surviving copies of the editions of Celestina in Spanish to the editions of its translations into European languages (Italian, German, French, Dutch, Neolatin and English) of the 16th to the 18th centuries, in this piece of work I record their online traceable surviving copies, as of…[Read more]