by Fernando de Rojas · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401418600
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«La Celestina» is the classic tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Calisto, a young nobleman, falls in love with Melibea and follows his servant's advice to turn to Celestina, an old procuress and sorceress. Celestina's cunning intervention unleashes a web of passions and interests among servants and masters, leading everyone to destruction.
A 15th-century work also known as «Comedia o Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea». This edition, from the Ave Fénix Clásicos collection, includes a prologue by Francisco Rico.
For literature students and readers interested in the classics of Spanish literature.
Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first work of the Spanish Renaissance".
