Toledo (1526)
Title
Toledo (1526)
Creator
Remón de Petras and anonymous illustrator
Date
1526
Description
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Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. Remón de Petras, Toledo, 1526.
This is the edition with 22 acts, with the act of Traso as act XIX.
25 images, most are factotums with the character names written above and a drop cap decorated letter. Included as complete images are: the cover or introduction, Celestina's death, that of Sempronio and Pármeno's (act XII, second illustration), the execution of them in another engraving (act XIII), Calisto climbing into the garden (act XIV, second illustration), Calisto's fall and death (act XXI, second illustration), and Melibea's suicide (act XXII, second illustration).
The same images are used in Juan de Ayala's Toledo edition (1538).
Description in the Edición e introducción crítica by Miguel Marciales (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985), volume I, pg. 5: "R. Segunda de Toledo, junio 23, 1526. Remón de Petras. Incluye el Auto de Traso. Edición muy correcta que sigue a I y en algunos casos a G. Carece de materia conclusoria. Ejemplar único existente en el Museo Británico: c.63.c.24."
Bibliography
Griffin, Clive. “Four Rare Editions of ‘La Celestina.’” The Modern Language Review, vol. 75, no. 3, 1980, pp. 561–574. www.jstor.org/stable/3727974</a
Illustration from the cover from the Toledo edition (1526)
Calisto and Melibea are in the walled garden on the left. Celestina is carrying the rosary, the string and a walking stick while knocking on a door and a young woman (Lucrecia) appears at the window to see who is knocking.
First illustration from act I from the Toledo edition (1526)
Five factotums and six names on top: Calisto, Melibea, Sempronio, Pármeno, Celestina, Elicia, Crito. Celestina is carrying the rosary and a walking stick.
Second illustration from act I from the I Toledo edition (1526)
Drop cap letter E of the first words of the play, "In this I see..." Within the letter there is a saint with a candle or a candelabra.
Illustration from act II from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotum with five blocks: houses, Calisto, Sempronio, Pármeno and houses. Sempronio has a beard and Pármeno is holding a bag. The houses are mirror images of a same model.
Illustration from act III from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of houses, Sempronio, Celestina, Elicia and the same houses inverted. Celestina is holding a rosary and a walking stick, same image used before.
Illustration from act IV from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums: houses, Lucrecia, Celestina, Alisa and Melibea. They are speaking in pairs, Celestina with Lucrecia and Alisa with Melibea. Celestina and Alisa are characterized as old women with their heads covered.
Illustration from act V from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums: houses, Celestina, Sempronio, Pármeno and Calisto.
Illustration from act VI from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of houses, Calisto, Celestina, Pármeno and Sempronio.
Illustration from act VII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Pármeno, Celestina, Aréusa, Elicia and houses.
Illustration from act VIII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotum of five blocks: houses, Calisto, Sempronio, Pármeno and houses. Sempronio has a beard and Pármeno is holding a bag. The houses are mirror images of a same model.
Illustration from act IX from the Toledo edition (1526)
Five factotums and six names above: Sempronio, Pármeno, Celestina, Elicia, Lucrecia, Areúsa.
Illustration from act X of the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Melibea, Celestina, Alisa, Lucrecia and houses, the characters speaking in pairs.
Illustration from act XI from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Celestina, Calisto, Sempronio, Pármeno and Elicia.
First illustration from act XII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Calisto, Lucrecia, Melibea, Pármeno and Sempronio.
Second illustration from act XII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Alisa, Pleberio, Celestina, Elicia and houses. Exceptionally the names are underneath instead of above the figures.
Third illustration from act XII of the Toledo edition (1525)
Judge and two soldiers with Pármeno and Sempronio (one on the floor, the other jumping out the window) on the left side and on the right, Pármeno and Sempronio kill Celestina with swords while Elicia pulls out her own hair behind Celestina. Curiously…
Illustration from act XIII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of buildings, Calisto, Tristán, Sosia and buildings. Tristán and Sosia are armed with swords.
Second illustration from act XIII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Pármeno and Sempronio's execution with two soldiers, judge, Sosia contemplating him and executioner wearing a turban. One of the executed carries a cross in hand.
First illustration from act XIV from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Melibea, Lucrecia, Sosia, Tristán and Calisto.
Second illustration from act XIV from the Toledo edition (1526)
Sosia and Tristán are armed in the street while Calisto goes up the staircase beside Melibea's garden, who is waiting for him inside with Lucrecia.
Illustration from act XV from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Elicia, the moço (sic), Centurio, Areúsa and houses.
Illustration from act XVI from the Toledo (1526)
Factotums of Melibea, Lucrecia, Alisa, Pleberio and houses.
Illustration from act XVII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of houses, Elicia, Aréusa, Sosia and houses.
Illustration from act XVIII from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of houses, Aréusa, Elicia, same unnamed character called the "moço" as in the illustration from act XV, and Centurio.
Illustration from act XIX from the Toledo edition (1526)
Five factotums and the six names of Traso, Centurio, Aréusa, Elicia, Terencia and Tiburcia.
First illustration from act XX from the Toledo edition (1526)
Factotums of Tristán, Sosia, Calisto, Melibea and Lucrecia.
Second illustration from act XX from the Toledo edition (1526)
Dead Calisto is removed by Tristán and Sosia. In the background, a ladder and the garden wall. Note the detail that Calisto's shoes are on the ground.
First illustration from act XXI from the Toledo edition (1526)
Dead Calisto is removed by Tristán and Sosia. In the background, a ladder and the garden wall. Note the detail that Calisto's shoes are on the ground.
Second illustration from act XXI from the Toledo edition (1526)
Melibea throws herself from the tower while Pleberio watches.
