A fight against black bile: La Lozana andaluza and love's painkillers and parody

Abstract

The critical trajectory of the Retrato de La Lozana Andaluza, of the cordovan presbyter Francisco Delicado, began a few decades ago, being palpable his revaluation nowadays. Nevertheless, the representation of the sexuality and the eroticism are still, like one century ago, a neglected matter to elucidate. This article studies how with the sexual nomination and experience the author and the protagonist attenuate their melancholic disease. The purpose is focussing this sexual matter in the context of the medical and erotic treatises, or the sentimental romances and «celestinescas» which are close to the book and see how some topics, motives and common places are subverted by the author with a parodic intention.