[Act XIV - Death of Calisto] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act XIV - Death of Calisto]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Burgos (Spain); Spain
Description: Calisto goes to spend another night with Melibea, and while there he seduces her. As he is leaving via the ladder used to scale the high garden walls (seen to the right, leaning against the tower in the background), he falls and is killed (on the ground in the bottom right corner).In this scene we see his servants Sosia and Tristán shocked by what has happened. To the left we also see Melibea, in despair at what she is witnessing, standing alongside Lucrecia who appears to be comforting her.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Wood engraver);Fadrique de Basilea (Printer of plates); Anonymous (Wood engraver); Fadrique de Basilea (Printer of plates)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:11677
Language: spa
Source Name: Comedia de Calisto y Melibea
Parent Collection: 1499 Burgos de Basilea; 1499 Burgos de Basilea
Image: mta_11677_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Seduction; Death; Calisto (Fictitious character); Lucrecia (Fictitious character); Sosia (Fictitious character); Tristan (Fictitious character); Ladders; Walls; Towers; Falling; Falls; Melibea (Fictitious character); Servants