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Francisco Delicado
A shadowy but fascinating figure of the Spanish Renaissance, he is best known for La Lozana andaluza, a lively, sharp-eyed work written after the sack of Rome. Even though little is known for certain about his life, his writing offers a vivid glimpse of the world he moved through.
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Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza En lengua española muy clarísima, compuesto en Roma.
by Francisco Delicado
About the author
Born in Córdoba around 1480, Francisco Delicado was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance. The details of his life are uncertain, but sources agree that he later went to Rome, where he adopted the surname Delicado.
After the sack of Rome in 1527, he went to Venice. There he wrote La Lozana andaluza (published in 1528), the work for which he is remembered today. The book follows the life of a witty Andalusian woman and is often noted for its energetic dialogue and unusually direct picture of everyday urban life.
Delicado's life remains partly obscure, which gives him an unusual place in literary history: he is known less through a full biography than through the vivid, worldly voice of his surviving work. That mix of mystery and immediacy is part of what makes him such an interesting author to discover.