[Act IX – Celestina, Elicia, Sempronio, Areusa, and Pármeno Share a Meal] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act IX – Celestina, Elicia, Sempronio, Areusa, and Pármeno Share a Meal]
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Celestina, Elicia, Sempronio, Areusa, and Pármeno (in clockwise order, starting from leftmost figure) are gathered around a table at Celestina’s house for dinner. While the two pairs of lovers dine, Celestina drinks her wine. Sempronio starts praising the beauty and virtue of Melibea, which enrages Elicia and causes her to become jealous. (She is standing with her back hunched over, and Sempronio has his left hand open, both of which signal an argument.) Celestina manages to calm her, and the two lovers reconcile. Lucrecia arrives shortly thereafter, and she tells Celestina that Melibea has asked to have her girdle returned. More importantly, Lucrecia informs Celestina that Melibea has an illness of the heart and has requested her presence.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator);Marx Wirsung (Printer);Sigismund Grymm (Printer); Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Marx Wirsung (Printer); Sigismund Grymm (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:18542
Source Name: Ain hipsche Tragedia von zwaien liebhabenden mentschen ainem Ritter Calixstus unn ainer Edlen junckfrawen Melibia genannt/ deren anfang müesam was/ das mittel sieß mit dem aller bittersten ir bayder sterben beschlossen.
Parent Collection: 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Uncoloured); 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Uncoloured)
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Collection: Celestina

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