by Francisco Delicado, Bruno Damiani · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470393693
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La Lozana Andaluza is a Renaissance work by Francisco Delicado, edited by Bruno Damiani. Full of vitality, it portrays Roman society of the time, with its protagonist Aldonza, a beautiful, sensual, and astute woman, surrounded by courtesans, ruffians, and other characters. Through dialogues and colloquies, the work presents crudities related to sex and the struggle for life, without a final condemnation or moral, showing a vision of love as pleasure and merchandise.
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.
