[Act VIII – Sempronio, Calisto, and Pármeno Talking] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act VIII – Sempronio, Calisto, and Pármeno Talking]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Sempronio (Fictitious character); Pármeno (Fictitious character); Servants; Lateness; Love; Despondency; Sadness; Melancholy; scams
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: After spending the night with Areusa, Pármeno (rightmost figure) wakes to find that it is already noon. Areusa asks him to stay and talk, but he explains that his master Calisto will already be upset with his lateness. He proposes that they have dinner with Celestina, Elicia, and Sempronio that night, and she happily agrees. When he returns to Calisto’s house, he is met by Sempronio (leftmost figure), who chides him for his lateness. Pármeno explains his new love for Areusa, and Sempronio immediately infers that Pármeno is now working to scam Calisto with him and Celestina. They decide to check on Calisto (central figure) in his bedroom, and they find him in a state of despondency, talking to himself in verse. When he regains a semblance of sanity, he tells them that he is going to Saint Mary Magdalene’s Church to pray for a remedy to his situation.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Marx Wirsung (Printer); Sigismund Grymm (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:20006
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)
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