by Francisco Delicado · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440204516
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«La lozana andaluza» is the novel by Francisco Delicado, published in 1988 by Orbis in hardback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Through dialogue, it recounts the adventures of Lozana, a young Andalusian woman who works as a prostitute in Renaissance Rome. The work offers a realistic and critical portrait of the society of the time and deals with sexuality, corruption, hypocrisy and the struggle to survive.
A dialogued work that originally appeared in 1528, within Spanish Renaissance 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.
