by Francisco Delicado · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401460371
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«La lozana andaluza» is the picaresque novel by Francisco Delicado, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (311 pages, in Spanish).
Picaresque novel originally published in 1528 that follows the adventures of Lozana, a young Andalusian woman who works as a prostitute in Rome. The work portrays with irony and colloquial language the hypocrisy and corruption of Renaissance society, and its realism has made it a classic of sixteenth-century Spanish literature.
First edition in the Manantial collection, number 37, Novela series, published in 1977 by Plaza & Janés.
For readers of Spanish classics and picaresque novels; the work contains eroticism and is aimed at an adult audience.
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.
