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Title
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[Act XX – Lucrecia Mourning the Loss of Melibea]
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Description
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This illustration was intended to be the final illustration in the book [Act XXI (Second Illustration)], as evinced by its placement in the original 1520 Augsburg edition. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly why the printer would place the illustration of Melibea lying dead in the street before the illustration where she is in the process of falling. Perhaps it is intended to represent the scene at the very end of act XIX, continuing between acts XIX and XX – where Melibea faints upon realizing that Calisto is dead, after which Lucrecia rouses her and walks her to her bedroom before going to inform Pleberio of her illness. If this is the case, then the inclusion of Pleberio and Alisa in the illustration is rather odd.
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Image Creator
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Hans Weiditz (Illustrator);Haynrich Stayner (Heinrich Steiner) (Printer)
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Hans Weiditz (Illustrator)
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Haynrich Stayner (Heinrich Steiner) (Printer)
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Identifier
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mta:18605
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Source Name
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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.
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Image
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Subject
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Spanish romances
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Melibea (Fictitious character)
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Lucrecia (Fictitious character)
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Pleberio (Fictitious character)
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Alisa (Fictitious character)
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Parents
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Servants
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Sadness
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Mourning
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Grief
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Sickness
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Illness
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Heartache
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Fainting
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