This selection of celestinesque and picaresque studies is the result of the joint work of new, experienced and established researchers from the American and European continents. It is a volume that proposes interdisciplinary and innovative perspectives that address both the defining works of the picaresque and celestinesque literatures and related…[Read more]

Analysis of the use of the Bible in “Celestina”.

The iconographic programmes of the illustrated editions of the translations of “Celestina” into Italian, German, French and Dutch printed in the first half of the sixteenth century are compared to those of the editions in Spanish that appeared before the Zaragoza: Pedro Bernuz y Bartolomé de Nájera, 1545 edition. They are considered within their c…[Read more]

Celestina is linked to Terenceʼs works since its origins: not only did contemporary readers identify it as a «terentian» work, but its earliest illustrated editions are indebted to the Strasbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1496 edition of Terence’s Comoediae. Going back to the manuscript models of the incunabula editions of Terence, in this artic…[Read more]

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]