Celestina : tragicomedia de Calisto et Melibea : novamente tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma : agiontoui di nuouo tutto quello che fin al giorno presente li mancaua : dapoi ogni altra impressione nouissimamente corretta, distinta, ordinata, & in piu com̃oda forma redotta, adornata, lequal cose nelle altre ĩpressione non si troua
This is an Italian edition of Celestina, the Spanish tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas, translated and printed in Venice in 1531 by Marchio Sessa for a general reading public. The four woodcuts repeat one scene: a woman in a long veil stands between two groups of men in an arcade of columns, with a man at right gesturing toward her as if making an appeal or argument. The compositions are nearly identical across the frames, with small shifts in the gesture of the right-hand man and the placement of the figures, which suggests how a block was reused and how a designer might study the same staging in slightly different poses.
