Valencia (1514)

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Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. Valencia: Juan Joffre, 1514

Total of 24 engravings, one engraving in every act, plus one for the title page and two in each of acts XII and XIX. The engravings in acts XIV and XIX are the same (Calisto climbing the walls of Melibea's garden). All the engravings are factotum figures except the title page, and acts XII (second) (depicting the death of Celestina and Pármeno and Sempronio jumping to their deaths), act XIII (execution of Pármeno and Sempronio), XIV (Calisto climbing te wall), XIX (same as XIV), XIX (Calisto´s fall and death), and XXI (Melibea´s suicide).

Description in Edición e introducción crítica de Miguel Marciales (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985), vol. I, pg. 6 : "J. Primera de Valencia, febrero 21. Juan Jofré/Joffré/. Identica a G en contenido pero agrega una octava a las de Proaza (AP.5b "Penados amantes…"). Ejemplar único existente en la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid: R4870"

Description in Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC 341405

The only standing copy is at the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, R-4870, and is accessible via Cervantesvirtual:

http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/bne/34696280982381641354679/thm0000.htm

Bibliography: Canet Vallés, José Luis. "El impresor valenciano Juan Jofré." Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: (Valencia, Juan Joffre, 1514). Ed. Nicasio Salvador Miguel. Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 1999. 39-52.