Perfumes and perfume-making in the Celestina

Lesley Twomey

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    Abstract

    Celestina’s house, as Dorothy Sherman Severin notes, is at the same time ‘a bawdy house, a factory for perfumes and cosmetics, and a symbol of the misrule of a woman empowered by her illegal professions of sorceress, witch and bawd’ (Severin 1995: 45). In these pages I will endeavour to set Celestina’s skills in the context of making perfume and uses of it in the early 16th century.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)143-149
    JournalBulletin of Hispanic Studies
    Volume86
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

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