by Francisco Delicado · Juventud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788426115010
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«La Lozana Andaluza» is the picaresque dialogue novel by Francisco Delicado, published by Juventud in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
It narrates the adventures of Lozana, an Andalusian courtesan in Rome in the first quarter of the 16th century, recreating the city's atmosphere through dialogues. The work stands out for its erotic tone and a language mixing the Spanish and Italian spoken by the lower classes.
La Lozana Andaluza was originally published in 1528. This 1977 edition, with introduction and notes by Agustín del Saz, belongs to the Libros de bolsillo Z collection (number 221).
For readers interested in Spanish Golden Age classics, the Renaissance, and the picaresque novel.
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.
