[Act XXI (First Illustration) – Pleberio Telling Alisa About the Death of Melibea while Lucrecia Stands at a Distance] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act XXI (First Illustration) – Pleberio Telling Alisa About the Death of Melibea while Lucrecia Stands at a Distance]
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Augsburg (Germany); Holy Roman Empire
Description: After Melibea takes her own life, her father Pleberio (central figure) is immersed in despondency. He goes to his bedchamber and informs his wife, Alisa (rightmost figure), of the death of their daughter. Alisa does not utter a word in this act. Based on Pleberio’s implorations for Alisa to help him deal with his sorrow, and his questioning whether she has joined Melibea in the afterlife, we can presume that Alisa has fainted. In the background to the left, we see a female figure, presumably Lucrecia.
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:18558
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
Subject: Spanish romances; Pleberio (Fictitious character); Alisa (Fictitious character); Lucrecia (Fictitious character); Parents; Servants; Sadness; Despondency; Loss

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