by Francisco Delicado · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423918386
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«La lozana andaluza» is a picaresque novel of the Renaissance written by Francisco Delicado, published by Austral in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows an Andalusian courtesan in Rome in the first quarter of the sixteenth century and portrays with an uninhibited gaze the popular life of the city, through dialogues that mix Spanish and Italian. The use of colloquial speech is one of its greatest attractions and makes the book a valuable testimony of Renaissance language.
This edition was published in March 1988, includes an introduction by Ángel Chiclana and is part of the Austral Clásica collection.
A classic for understanding daily life in the Renaissance, intended for readers of classic fiction and Spanish literature.
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.
