Fernando de Rojas

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Fernando de Rojas

Spanish author and playwright, 1470–1541

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Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist born in La Puebla de Montalbán, near Toledo. His birth year is uncertain: sources give around 1465 or 1473 rather than 1470. He died in April 1541 in Talavera de la Reina, also in the Toledo region.

Rojas is known for one surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499 under the title Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. He wrote it while still a student. Scholars have described it as either the last major work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first of the

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