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See also:CELESTINA, LA , the popular alternative See also:title attached from 1519 (or earlier) to the See also:anonymous Comedia de Caliste y Melibea, a See also:Spanish novel in See also:dialogue which was celebrated throughout See also:Europe during the 16th See also:century. In the two earliest known See also:editions (See also:Burgos, 1499, and See also:Seville, 1501) the Comedia consists of sixteen acts; the reprints issued after 1501 are entitled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, and contain twenty-one acts. Three of these reprints include a twenty-second See also:act which is admittedly See also:spurious, and the authenticity of Acts xvru.-See also:xx1. is disputed. The authorship of the Celestina and the date of its See also:composition are doubtful. An anonymous prefatory See also:letter in the editions subsequent to 1501 attributes the See also:book to Juan de See also:Mena. or Rodrigo Cota, but this ascription is universally rejected. The prevailing See also:opinion is that the author of the twenty-one acts was Fernando de Rojas, apparently a Spanish See also:Jew See also:resident at the See also:Puebla de See also:Montalban in the See also:province of See also:Toledo; R. Foulche-Delbose, however, maintains that the See also:original sixteen acts are by an unknown writer who had no See also:part in the five supplementary acts. Some scholars give 1483 as the date of composition; others hold that the book was written in 1497. These questions are still unsettled. Though profoundly original in treatment, the Celestina has points of See also:analogy with the See also:work of earlier writers, such as Juan See also:Ruiz (q.v.), the See also:archpriest of See also:Hita; his rapid sketches of Trota-conventas, See also:Melon and Endrina no doubt suggested the finished portraits of Celestina, Calisto and Melibea, and the closing See also:scene in the Celestina recalls the See also:suicide in Diego See also:Fernandez de See also:San Pedro's Cartel de Amer. Allowing for these and other debts of the same See also:kind, it cannot be denied that the Celestina excels all earlier Spanish See also:works in tragic force, in impressive conception, and in the realistic rendering of characters See also:drawn from all classes of society. It passed through innumerable editions in See also:Spain, and was the first Spanish book to find See also:acceptance throughout western Europe. At least twenty works by well-known Spanish authors are derived from it; it was adapted for the See also:English See also:stage as See also:early as 1525-1530, and was translated into See also:Italian (1505), See also:French (1527) and other See also:European See also:languages. A Latin version by Caspar See also:Barth was issued under the title of Porno boscodidascalus See also:latinus (1624) with all the See also:critical apparatus of a recognized classic. See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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