[Act XIX (Second Illustration) – Calisto’s Death] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act XIX (Second Illustration) – Calisto’s Death]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Sosia (Fictitious character); Tristan (Fictitious character); Servants; Falls; Falling; Death; Sadness; Walls; Gardens; Ladders
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Spain; Seville (Spain); Castile (Kingdom)
Description: While Calisto and Melibea talk in her garden, Calisto hears noise in the street and asks his servants the cause of the commotion. Tristan tells him that Thraso and his companions had come to cause a ruckus, but that Sosia managed to scare them off. Regardless, Calisto hurries up the ladder to help them. He descends the outside ladder too quickly, falling to his death. Sosia and Tristan carry him home to protect him from speculation that might posthumously damage his reputation.[None of the elements in this illustration are found elsewhere in this edition.]
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver); Jacobo Cromberger (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:19903
Source Name: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea : en la qual se contiene de mas de su agradable e dulce estilo muchas sentencias filosofales : e auisos muy necessarios para mancebos : mostrandoles los engaños quastan encerrados en seruientes e alcabuetas : e nueuamente añadido el tractado de Centurio.
Parent Collection: 1502 Seville Cromberger
Image: mta_19903_OBJ.png