Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas (born v. 1450 (?) with Puebla de Montalban, Tolède - died between the 3 and the April 8th 1541 with Talavera, Tolède) was a writer and Spanish playwright of the end of the Moyen-âge.
Biography
One knows only very few things of his life. His/her parents belonged to a Jewish family converted. He was governor of Tolède, but before he made studies of right to Salamanque.
Rojas is especially known as author of Célestine, or tragi-comedy of Calixte and Mélibée ( Celestina, O tragicomedia of Calisto there Melibea ). This work was, after Don Quichotte , the Spanish book most universally diffused and celebrated. The first known edition was printed with Burgos in 1499, the second with Tolède in 1500 (preserved at the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny/Geneva).
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