Celestinesca (Jan 2021)

«Valle de lágrimas» y lugares de la gloria: la <i>Celestina</i> y el Salmo 83/84

  • Luis Galván

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7203/Celestinesca.28.20032
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 0
pp. 25 – 32

Abstract

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The last words of Pleberio quote the prayer «Salve Regina» but allude also to the Psalm nr 83/84. The Latin translations of this Psalm and the commentary on it by Saint Jerome, as well as Celestina, use the archetypes of Paradise and Wilderness, and of Fall. Therefore, the allusion to the Psalm at the end of the work suggests an inversion of the descent made by the characters

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