Portrait of Lozana (PDF)

INTRODUCTION (p. I)

Portrait of Lozana: The Lustv Andalusian Woniaji is a novel in dialogue, written in Rome by Francisco Delicado, and published in Venice in 1528. There is évidence to show that Delicado, born in Andalusia, came from a family of Jewish converts to Catholicism that was forced to leave Spain at the time of the Edict of Expulsion of 1492.

He arrived in Rome during the pontificate of Alexander VI (1492-1503). After the Sack of Rome (1527) he settled in Venice where he remained until his death (about 1534 or 1535). The reason for writing Lozana. in Italy instead of Spain is given by one of the novel`s protagonists, Silvio, as he explains in Sketch 24 that "what is forbidden in Spain is allowed in Rome", alluding to the greater social freedom and tolérance for artistic expressions that existed in Italy, particularly in Rome, seen in many historical and literary accounts of the time as thé seat of pleasure and corruption, and Venice where its libéral printing presses were among thé most active of Europe in thé sixteenth century.

Lozana was written and published during the height of Italo- Hispanic political, cultural, and literary relations. The présence of the Spanish crown in Naples, and thé vitality of humanistic thought in Italy, attracted scores of Spanish artists and writers to Italy.

In 1529, the poet Garcilaso de la Vega accompanied Charles V to his coronation in Italy and the dramatist Bartolome de Torres Naharro wrote, a few years earlier, his plays in Castillan for a Neapolitan audience (1517). As a whole, Delicado`s novel reflects some of the most intrinsically Spanish characteristics: picturesqueness and a deep sensé of humor, a realistic treatment of common events, persons and émotions of daily life, and a fundamental préoccupation with man`s destiny.

The novel is conceived as a biography of a woman known to the author and as a social chronicle of Renaissance Rome. As suchf the work is a valuable historical

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