Calisto tells sempronio to go with celestina to melibea, parmeno tries again to warn, but calisto thinks he is jealous of sempronio. The authorities catch sempronio and parmeno in the act of fleeing and they are beheaded. Celestina is nearuniversally acknowledged as a great, compelling. Celestina gives him her message and tells him of the arrangements she has made for him with melibea. Melibea rejects calisto immediately at his open pledge of his love for her, as is the custom in courtly love. Calisto becomes depressed and lovesick, so his servant, sempronio, tells calisto about celestina, a procuress who owns a brothel with prostitutes, two of whom are elicia and areusa.
Bienvenido m orros, barcelona, vicens vives, 1996, p. Celestina meets with melibea and gives her a magic thread while telling her of the suffering of a man she knows whose only cure is the word and girdle of melibea. Sempronio talks of greed with celestina, while parmeno warns calisto. The men kill celestina in anger, but elicia witnesses their treachery. Celestina says goodbye to calisto, goes to her house, knocks at the door.
As they are engaged in this conversation, parmeno and sempronio are talking between themselves. Elicia comes to open, berating her for her late arrival. They meet celestina and calisto gives her keys llaves and she gives parmeno areusa. Celestina convinces parmeno not to warn him any longer, using areusa, and to instead join with her and sempronio in taking advantage of calisto. His polite greetings at the door of areusas bedroom are a superb mimicry. Celestina 3 prologue two men carry the lifeless body of melibea across the back of the stage. Behold her, whom i begot, dashed and broken all to pieces. My threescore years were fitter for the grave than her twenty.
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