Short answers, pulled from the story.
Fernando de Rojas entered the world around 1470 in La Puebla de Montalbán, a town nestled within the province of Toledo. Contemporary records label him as a converso, a term that signals Jewish descent without confirming his personal religious conversion.
The text was originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea and appeared in print in 1499 after he left the university. Critics describe the piece variously as a drama, a dramatic poem, or a dialogued novel.
The Inquisition refused to allow Rojas to act as defending lawyer due to his status as a converso when his father-in-law Álvaro de Montalbán faced accusations of secretly returning to Judaism in 1525. This restriction stemmed from his lineage rather than any suspicion that he practiced Judaism personally.
Rojas moved to Talavera de la Reina around 1507 to practice law and established himself successfully in this city where he would live for the last three decades of his life. He went on to serve as mayor of Talavera de la Reina during the 1530s.