Author
Francisco Delicado
Spanish writer, 1480–1535
Their life
Francisco Delicado, also written Delgado, was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance, believed to have been born around 1480 in Córdoba. His life is poorly documented. The reasons he left Spain for Rome are uncertain, and in Rome he changed his surname to the Italianized form Delicado. After the sack of Rome, he moved to Venice. He died around 1535, and the reference does not say where.
In Venice he wrote *Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman* (1528), a novel in dialogue that follows the model of *Celestina*. It portrays Rome and its seamier side in the early 1500s and is
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