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Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73 - 1541) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, a tragicomedy published in 1499. He was a converso of Jewish descent, a lawyer, and a mayor of Talavera de la Reina.
Biografía, obra y controversias del escritor español autor de La Celestina, una de las obras maestras de la literatura hispánica. Conoce su origen familiar, su formación jurídica, su carrera política y su legado literario.
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish writer who authored La Celestina, a prose drama in dialogue that is considered the first masterpiece of Spanish prose and the greatest work of the early Renaissance in Spain. Learn about his life, his work, and its influence on European literature.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea (Spanish: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), known in Spain as La Celestina is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. It is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of converted Jews, who practiced law and, later in life, served as an alderman of Talavera de la Reina, an important commercial ...
La Celestina is a dialogue novel about the tragic love of Calisto and Melibea, mediated by the bawd Celestina. It is considered the first masterpiece of Spanish prose and the first European novel, written by Fernando de Rojas, a converted Jewish lawyer.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) This bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a ...
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Biografía del escritor castellano del siglo XV, nacido en La Puebla de Montalbán y fallecido en Talavera de la Reina. Conoce su obra maestra, La Celestina, una novela de amor y desgracia que narra las peripecias de Calisto y Melibea.
