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Delicado, Francisco

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Francisco Delicado Cordoba 1475 1535 M P0765

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela Author Literary Author Author - poet, playwright

Years active Place active Century Region
16cent/1/early Andalucia
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Francisco Delicado (or Delgado) (c. 1480 – c. 1535) was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance. Little is known about his life. He was born in Cordoba, Spain and, by uncertain reasons, he moved to Rome, where he became vicar and Italianized his surname to Delicado. After the sack of Rome, he went to Venice where he wrote his novel Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman (El retrato de la Loçana Andaluza, 1528), that continues on the lines of the novel in dialogue exemplified by Celestina. (...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Delicado 07/01/15.

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1528 Francisco Delicado, Retrato de la lozana andaluza.


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