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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL ELEMENTS IN "LA LOZANA ANDALUZA" BY FRANCISCO DELICADO (JUDAISM, SPAIN)
Abstract
Study of the religious characteristics of La lozana andaluza by Francisco Delicado has tended to either elaborate the didactic elements to prove that La lozana andaluza is a moral-didactic novel or to examine internal evidence that Delicado was a converso based on his familiarity with the Roman Sephardic and converso communities. Other religious concerns are present in the novel. This study shows that, for Delicado, humanism was more than a stylistic movement, or a return sources. Ironic discourse, which is essentially didactic, reflects the priest's ambivalent position in both Rome and his novel. He is part Jew, part Christian, observer and participant, sinner and confessor, and prophet of God's wrath. These roles enacted by Delicado are reflected in the multiplicity of voice and tone in the novel, and have been the primary reasons for its being misunderstood. The strong sexual elements produce a resonance at variance with the stated intent, not unlike the resonance of the picaresque novel. In both cases, part of this can be attributed to an unreliable narrator. The abundant literary references show not only humanist leanings, but an awareness of the theological issues of the early sixteenth century and the Catholic reform movement of which humanism was a part. Textual evidence is cited relating Delicado to those reforms and evangelical movements, and, in particular, to the Pietist school (Savonarola) which had a marked influence on the Christian humanist, and was accompanied by a millenarist revival that saw in Rome the Whore of Babylon, and in the city's wickedness, evidence of the Last Days. This apocalypticism is repeated in Delicado's calls for repentance and assurance that the wrath of God will destroy the Church unless she reforms. The scourge of God is seen in the Sack of Rome, a year previous to publication. Delicado affirms that he wrote only what he saw, and his novel presents Lozana, as individual, as representative of Rome, and as Christ's Church. Ultimately, Delicado's examination of God's relationship with His Church is the center of the novel.
Subject Area
Romance literature
Recommended Citation
BRAKHAGE, PAMELA SUE, "RELIGIOUS AND MORAL ELEMENTS IN "LA LOZANA ANDALUZA" BY FRANCISCO DELICADO (JUDAISM, SPAIN)" (1985). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8521445.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8521445