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Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73, in La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain – April 1541, in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), first published in 1499.
Fernando de Rojas (born c. 1465, La Puebla de Montalbán, Castile—died April 1541, Talavera de la Reina, Spain) was a Spanish author whose single work is La Celestina, an extended prose drama in dialogue that marked an important stage in the development of prose fiction in Spain and in Europe.
Fernando de Rojas ( La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, c. 1465 1 - Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, 1541) fue un escritor español, aunque en algunas ocasiones se le ha calificado de dramaturgo por la naturaleza dialogada de la única obra que se le ha atribuido, La Celestina; sin embargo, carece de algunos elementos esenciales del género dramático, l...
Authorship of the work, which was published anonymously, is generally attributed to Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465–1541), a converted Jewish lawyer about whom little else is known. La Celestina was widely imitated and reprinted in Spanish more than 100 times by the mid-17th century.
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 center near Toledo. The book is considered to be one of the greatest works of all Spanish literature , even the single topic of a Spanish literary journal ...
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 short bibliography.
We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author. He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea , in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain.
Fernando de Rojas estudió en Salamanca a fines del siglo XV, alcanzando el grado de bachiller, con el que él mismo se nombra en el acróstico inicial, mientras que en la carta de «El auctor a un su amigo» se declara «jurista» y estudiante en derechos (civil y canónico).
Originally appearing in Spain anonymously in 1499, La Celestina was later published in 1500 by a young law student named Fernando de Rojas in an expanded version. The work follows Celestina, a bawdy old madam who practices witchcraft and lives by her wits and who brings two young lovers together.
Fernando de Rojas was a writer from Spain who is attributed as the author of the famous Spanish work, La Celestina. Although not much is known about his life, he is among the most famous authors in Spain, and his legacy lives on today in the form of this great work.
