Stories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]

The edition of the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea of Zaragoza, at the office of Jorge Coci at the expense of Pedro Bernuz and Bartolomé de Nájera, 17th of june 1545, is the first Spanish illustrated edition of the Tragicomedia that returns to the iconographic plan of the Burgos Comedia, characterised by page-wide scenes directly linked to the t…[Read more]

Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called «celestinesque genre», in which it almost invariably serves as foreplay for intercourse. This motif evidences an erotisation of violence that, according to a significant portion of early-modern erotic poetry, acts as a stimulant of male desire. However, this a…[Read more]

Ubica “Celestina” en la tradición alemana de la “Historie”.