by Francisco Delicado · Círculo de amigos de la historia · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422500247
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«Retrato de la lozana andaluza» is the picaresque novel by Francisco Delicado published in hardback by Círculo de Amigos de la Historia in 1973.
An Andalusian courtesan in sixteenth-century Rome is the protagonist of adventures that Delicado uses to show the atmosphere, customs and characters of Roman society. The tale, with a libertine tone, veils female sexual references through metaphors.
The edition has 285 pages and measures 17x11 cm; it is part of the «Clásicos españoles» collection (volume 22).
For those interested in Spanish classics and sixteenth-century picaresque narrative.
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.
