This article explores the potential links between “Celestina” and the late medieval reinterpretation of the classical mnemotechnic concept of “imago agens”. On the one hand, it analyses the woodcuts corresponding to the deaths of the main characters and compares them with some examples of late medieval religious im-agery that exemplify the…[Read more]

Some texts of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries seem to make reference to a sixteenth-century translation of “Celestina” into Italian other than Alphonso Hordognez’s. In this article, the author analyses some references to the above-mentioned translation in order to determine if it really existed or not.

“Celestina” scholarship has devoted many pages to the influence of “Cárcel de amor” on the “Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea”. However, this is not the only work by Diego de San Pedro that has left trace in the “Tragicomedia”. Actually, his religious writings “La Passion trobada” and “Las siete Angustias de Nuestra Señora” could have played an i…[Read more]

This article presents a literary analysis of the extant poetic prologue to the Hebrew adaptation of Celestina, written in Italy by Joseph ben Samuel Tsarfati at the beginning of the 16th century. The prologue is shown to be a product of various literary traditions, and an indication of the nature of the role of secular literature within the Jewish…[Read more]