by Francisco Delicado · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475302683
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«La Lozana andaluza» is the novel by Spanish writer Francisco Delicado, published by Orbis in hardback, with 272 pages in Spanish.
Lozana, a young Andalusian woman, makes her way through Renaissance Rome between prostitution and wit. Francisco Delicado uses her story to create a satire of the society of the time, with popular language and a critical eye, in a novel originally published in 1528.
It is number 48 of the Orbis collection History of Spanish Literature, published in 1983.
Aimed at readers of the History of Spanish Literature series and those seeking classics of the Spanish Renaissance.
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.
