[Act XIX – Sosia and Tristan Lifting Calisto After He Has Fallen to His Death] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act XIX – Sosia and Tristan Lifting Calisto After He Has Fallen to His Death]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Sosia (Fictitious character); Tristan (Fictitious character); Servants; Falls; Falling; Death; Ladders; Walls
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: When midnight approaches yet again, Calisto visits Melibea while Sosia and Tristan stand guard. As he and Melibea talk, he hears a scuffle in the street. Tristan informs him that it is just Thraso and his companions, and that Sosia has managed to scare them off. Regardless, Calisto climbs the high garden wall and, descending the outside ladder too quickly, falls to his death. To avoid exposing him to dishonour, Sosia and Tristan carry him away (as seen in this illustration). Meanwhile, Melibea laments the tragic loss of her lover.
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:20033
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 (Coloured); 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Coloured)
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Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Sosia (Fictitious character); Tristan (Fictitious character); Servants; Falls; Falling; Death; Ladders; Walls

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