[Act III - Sempronio with His Lover Elicia at Celestina's House] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act III - Sempronio with His Lover Elicia at Celestina's House]
Subject: Celestina (Fictitious character); Elicia (Fictitious character); Sempronio (Fictitious character); Love; Loyalty; Spells; Charms; Melibea (Fictitious character); Prostitutes; scams; Spanish romances; Servants
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Burgos (Spain); Spain
Description: Sempronio goes to Celestina’s house to negotiate Calisto’s wishes. She tells him that Calisto only paid her a small sum, and that she is trying to scam him out of more money. Sempronio reminds her that Calisto is willing to increase payment if he gets what he wants. The mutual interest of scamming Calisto unites them, and Celestina awards Sempronio one of her prostitutes, Elicia, in exchange for his loyalty (he is seen standing with her to the left). However, they doubt that Pármeno will join them in their cause, seeing as he was an assistant to Celestina when he was young and thus knows her treacherous ways. Sempronio and Elicia leave Celestina alone, and she casts a love spell (or curse) on Melibea. Now certain that she will succeed, she leaves her house to visit Melibea.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Wood engraver); Fadrique de Basilea (Printer of plates)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:11666
Language: spa
Source Name: Comedia de Calisto y Melibea
Parent Collection: 1499 Burgos de Basilea
Image: mta_11666_OBJ.jpg