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La Celestina is usually regarded as marking the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the renaissance in Spanish literature. Although usually regarded as a novel, it is written as a continuous series of dialogues and can be taken as a play, having been staged as such and filmed.
- Medieval novel
- Burgos
- 1499
- Fernando de Rojas
La Celestina, Spanish dialogue novel, generally considered the first masterpiece of Spanish prose and the greatest and most influential work of the early Renaissance in Spain. Originally published in 16 acts as the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (1499; “Comedy of Calisto and Melibea”) and shortly.
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Yo, Celestina, tu más conocida cliéntula, te conjuro por la virtud y fuerza de estas bermejas letras, por la sangre de aquella nocturna ave con que están escritas, por la gravedad de aquestos nombres y signos que en este papel se contienen, por la áspera ponzoña de las víboras de que este aceite fue hecho, con el cual unto este hilado ...
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The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue. From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes La Celestina Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.
A short summary of Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of La Celestina.
Summary. Posted on December 18, 2017 by Gethin. La Celestina is the tale of a passionate love affair that ends in tragedy. Calisto, a young nobleman enters the garden of Pleberio in pursuit of his falcon. There he sees Pleberio’s daughter, Melibea, and falls madly in love with her, but she quickly rejects his hasty advances.
La Celestina: Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea. by Fernando de Rojas. THE LITERARY WORK. A play set in Spain at the end of the fifteenth century; published in Spanish (as Tragi-comedia de Calisto y Melibea) in 1499; in English (as The Spanish Bawd) in 1631. SYNOPSIS
