[Act XVII – Calisto and Melibea (?) Locked in Embrace] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act XVII – Calisto and Melibea (?) Locked in Embrace]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Love; Lovers; Embraces; Gardens
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: This illustration is interesting, seeing as no characters embrace during the seventeenth act. Areusa does manipulate Sosia into revealing when and where Calisto meets with Melibea, but Sosia does not describe in any detail the nature of their encounters.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator);Haynrich Stayner (Heinrich Steiner) (Printer); Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Haynrich Stayner (Heinrich Steiner) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:18602
Source Name: AInn recht liepliches buechlin unnd gleich ain traurige Comedi (so von den Latinischen Tragicocomoedia genant wirt) darauß der leser vast nurzlichen bericht/ von schaden unngefar fleischlicher lieb/ untrewe der diener/ ausserz der gemaynen weber/ list und geyrzigkait der kupler/ und gleych als inn eynem spiegel mancherlay sitten unnd aygenschafft der menschen/ sehen und lernen mag.
Parent Collection: 1534 Augsberg Weiditz Steiner; 1534 Augsberg Weiditz Steiner
Image: mta_18602_OBJ.png
Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Love; Lovers; Embraces; Gardens