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Fernando de Rojas is known for writing La Celestina, originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, first published in 1499. It is his only surviving literary work and is considered either the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first of the Spanish Renaissance.
Fernando de Rojas was born around 1465 to 1473 in La Puebla de Montalbán, in the Toledo region of Spain. He died in April 1541 in Talavera de la Reina, also in Toledo.
Contemporary documents refer to Fernando de Rojas as a converso, meaning he was either personally converted from Judaism to Christianity or was of convert descent. Scholarly opinion differs on the precise interpretation. His family had been recognized as hidalgos for at least three generations despite their Jewish ancestry.
Approximately sixty editions and six sequels of La Celestina were published in the course of the sixteenth century. The Spanish Inquisition permitted the work to circulate, choosing only to excise anticlerical passages.
Fernando de Rojas studied law at the University of Salamanca, graduating around 1498. He then practiced law in Talavera de la Reina and served as the city's mayor during the 1530s.
In 1525, Rojas's father-in-law Alvaro de Montalbán was accused of secretly returning to Judaism. The Inquisition refused to allow Rojas to serve as the defending lawyer because of his own converso status, but permitted him to testify on Montalbán's behalf. The charge was ultimately dropped.