Adivinha, vendedora de ilusões e um pouco feiticeira: representação literária da Alcoviteira no século XVI

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the book La Celestina and the influence of the prostitute character Celestina in the seventeenth-century imaginary between Portugal and Spain. This literary topoi has been present in literature since antiquity, through characters such as Dipsas, a Lena-type witch, present in Ovid's elegies and who represented an individual against the grain of Roman morality at the time. This question goes back to the Middle Ages and the Modern Period, a period, incidentally, in which the procurer as a social figure in literature stands out. In our research, we tried to highlight the influence of the prostitute character Celestina, created at the end of the 15th century in Spain and which flows into the work of other great authors such as Feliciano de Silva, Gil Vicente and Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos.We bring to debate the way in which female profiles are constructed and the importance of analyzing the historical context and sources.