[Act X (Second Illustration) – Melibea Collapses After Celestina Pressures Her to Reveal Her Love for Calisto] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act X (Second Illustration) – Melibea Collapses After Celestina Pressures Her to Reveal Her Love for Calisto]
Subject: Spanish romances; Melibea (Fictitious character); Celestina (Fictitious character); Love; Emotions; Passions; Fainting; Deception; lies; Lying
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Celestina (upper figure) informs Melibea (lower figure) that she can only be cured if she reveals her love for Calisto, which causes Melibea to experience intense emotions and faint. Upon waking, she finally acknowledges her love for Calisto. Celestina tells her that she will be cured if she meets with Calisto at midnight, and Melibea agrees. As Celestina departs for home, she encounters Melibea’s mother Alisa, who asks her the purpose of her visit. Alisa asks Melibea the same question, and when the two answers differ, she warns Melibea to avoid Celestina.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Marx Wirsung (Printer); Sigismund Grymm (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:20009
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)
Image: mta_20009_OBJ.png