[Act I – Calisto Encounters Melibea/Celestina Visits Calisto, Sempronio, and Pármeno] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act I – Calisto Encounters Melibea/Celestina Visits Calisto, Sempronio, and Pármeno]
Subject: Spanish romances; Celestina (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Calisto (Fictitious character); Sempronio (Fictitious character); Pármeno (Fictitious character); Robes; Veils; Servants; Love
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Italy; Venice (Italy); Republic of Venice
Description: The left side of this illustration presumably depicts Calisto’s first encounter with Melibea. To the right, we see a group of figures. The leftmost figure in this group represents Celestina, who is wearing a robe and veil. Three of the remaning four figures would represent Calisto, Sempronio, and Pármeno, signalling that this is intended to represent the scene in which Celestina first visits Calisto. However, the presence of a fourth figure does not accord with the number of characters present in this scene.[This illustration is identical to those found in Acts VII (folio 52v), IX (folio 67r), XI (folio 80r), XII (folio 83v), XIV (folio 96v), XVI (folio 106v), and XIX (folio 115v).]
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver); Cesare Arrivabene (Cesaro Arriuabeno) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:18609
Source Name: Celestina; Tragicomedia de Calisto e Melibea nouamente tradocta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma. Aggiontoui di nouo tutto quello ch(?) fin al giorno presente li manchaua. Da poi ogni altra impressione nouissimamente correcta : distincta ordenada : & in piu comoda forma reducta : adorna da etiam di molte bellissime figure : segondo el numero di soi acti : con le persone etia a dicti acti conueniente : le qual cose nelle alter impressione non si troua.
Parent Collection: 1519 Venice Arrivabene
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