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

Title: [Act XVII – Calisto and Melibea (?) Locked in Embrace]
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 he does not describe in any detail the nature of their encounters.
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:20017
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)
Image: mta_20017_OBJ.png
Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Love; Lovers; Embraces; Gardens