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In this article, I analyse the orality of a sixteenth-century Spanish literary text, the Retrato de la Loçana andaluza (RLA), composed in Rome (1524) by the Andalusian priest Francisco Delicado. This work reflects the multilingual situation of Rome during that time and is also an example of a text specifically designed to be read aloud in public. The following hypothesis has been proved: the RLA is a remarkable example of a text written in sixteenth-century Spanish that can be used for studying both medial and conceptional orality (as defined by Koch and Oesterreicher 2007). The text of the only surviving antique copy of this book was consciously written taking into account its way of dissemination: public reading (aloud in groups). Furthermore, Delicado uses features of the spoken language to portray characters and communicative situations, and to imitate the mechanisms and strategies of oral dialogicity.
