Venice (1534)

Title

Venice (1534)

Creator

Stefano da Sabio and anonymous illustrator

Date

1534

Description

 
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Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. Venice: Stefano Nicolini da Sabio, 1534

21 illustrations (one repeated, in other words, 20 different ones). Most are factotums except the cover, the second illustration from act XII (Celestina's death and Pármeno and Sempronio's leap), Pármeno and Sempronio's execution in act XIII, Calisto climbing Melibea's wall in act XIV (repeated in act XIX), Calisto's fall in act XIX, and Melibea's death in act XX.
They are the same as in the Sevilla edition (1523) although the ones from the first acts are missing.

The copy from which the images have been taken is completely digitalized on GoogleBooks, whose origin is not specified but has a seal from the Biblitoteca de Barcelona.

The Hispninc Society of America via TeXTReD online has another copy of this book

See file at USTC

Cover page of the Venice edition (1534)
Celestina, Melibea, Lucrecia, Calisto, Sempronio and a dog. Falcon and horse. Celestina holding her rosary and Calisto the chain and falcon. Note the detail of the horse's testicles that can be seen from behind.

Engraving of act IV of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of buildings, Lucrecia, Celestina, Alisa and Melibea.

Engraving of act V of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of buildings, Calisto, Pármeno, Sempronio and Celestina.

Engraving of act VI of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Calisto, Celestina, Pármeno and Sempronio.

Engraving of act VII of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Celestina, Pármeno, Areúsa, Elicia and buildings.

Engraving of act VIII of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Calisto, Sempronio, Pármeno and Areúsa.

Engraving of act IX of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Sempronio, Pármeno, Celestina, Lucrecia and Areúsa.

Engraving of act X of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Melibea, Celestina, Lucrecia and Alisa.

Engraving of act XI of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Calisto, Celestina, Pármeno, Sempronio and Elicia.

First engraving of act XII of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Pleberio, Alisa, Celestina and Alicia.

Second engraving of act XII of the Venice edition (1534)
Two sequences that simultaneously show Celestina's death, Pármeno and Sempronio jumping from the window, and their sentence by the judge.

Engraving of act XIII of the Venice edition (1534)
Pármeno and Sempronio's execution.

Engraving of act XIV of the Venice edition (1534)
Calisto scaling Melibea's garden wall accompanied by Sosia and Tristán. Melibea and Lucrecia wait inside. The same image is used later in act XIX.

Engraving of act XV of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of houses, Elicia, Centurio, Areúsa and a tree.

Engraving of act XVI of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of Melibea, Lucrecia, Alisa and Pleberio.

Engraving of act XVII of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of houses, Elicia Sosia, Areúsa and a tree.

Engraving of act XVIII of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotums of houses, Areúsa, Centurio, Elicia and a tree.

First engraving of act XIX of the Venice edition (1534)
Calisto scaling the wall of Melibea's garden accompanied by Tristán and Sosia while Melibea and Lucrecia wait within. The same image used in act XIV.

Second engraving of act XIX of the Venice edition (1534)
Calisto, dead, is carried away by Sosia and Tristán.

First engraving of act XX of the Venice edition (1534)
Factotum of a tree, Lucrecia, Pleberio and houses.

Second engraving of act XX of the Venice edition (1534)
Melibea's suicide, as she throws herself from the tower while two male (Pleberio and another) and two female (Alisa and Lucrecia) characters watch.
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