Fernando de ROJAS
Fernando de Rojas.
Born about 1470 in La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo.
Died in April 1541 in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo.
Wikipedia: English,
French,
Spanish.
WORKS
Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (c. 1499).
Version in 16 acts, written around 1492. First published about 1499 (lost edition). Revised version published in Toledo in 1500, and in Seville in 1501. Also published in Burgos, illustrated, with the year 1499 on the printer’s mark on the last page, but most likely printed between 1500 and 1502 (the printer used that mark without changing it from 1499 to 1502); the single extant copy of this Burgos edition lacks the preliminary texts that can be found in the Toledo and Seville editions, which also only survive in single copies. A manuscript in the Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid, containing the title, the argument of the whole play and the beginning of the first act, with differences from the printed version, seems to represent an earlier stage of the work.
Spanish: Palacio manuscript (fragment);
Seville 1501;
Burgos c. 1501 (facsimile, 1909);
1902.
English: The Celestina (Lesley Byrd Simpson, 1955).
Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (c. 1502).
Version in 21 acts, with five new acts inserted after Act 14. Alternate titles: Libro de Calixto y Melibea y de la puta vieja Celestina (c. 1519), Celestina (from 1595) and La Celestina. These addtional acts are known as the Tratado de Centurio.
Spanish: c. 1519;
1523;
1525;
1531;
1531;
1534;
1534;
1536;
1536;
1550;
1553;
1568;
1582;
1590 (January 1591);
1599;
1622;
1632;
1822;
1900;
c. 1911;
1913.
Italian: Tragicocomedia di Calisto e Melibea (Alfonso Ordoñez, 1506; see also
1514,
1519,
1535 and
1543).
Latin: Pornoboscodidascalus (Caspar von Barth, 1624).
English: The Spanish Bawd represented in Celestina, or the Tragic Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (James Mabbe, 1631, ed. 1894; see also
1923; edited and completed by Dorothy Sherman Severin in
1987);
• Celestina (Mack Hendricks Singleton, 1958, ed. 1975);
• Celestina, or The Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (Phyllis Hartnoll, 1959);
• The Spanish Bawd: La Celestina, Being the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea (John Michael Cohen, 1964, ed. 1966);
• La Celestina: Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea (Wallace Woolsey, 1969).
French: Célestine (anonymous, 1527; from the Italian version by Alfonso Ordoñez; see also
1529 and
1529);
• La Célestine (Jacques de Lavardin, 1578; see also
1598);
• La Célestine, ou Histoire tragicomique de Caliste et de Mélibée (anonymous, 1633; bilingual; see also
1633 Pamplona edition);
• La Célestine, tragi-comédie de Calixte et de Mélibée (Alfred Germond de Lavigne, 1841; see also
1843;
revised and completed in 1873; anonymously revised “par un licencié castillan” in 1922);
• La Célestine, ou Tragi-comédie de Calixte et Mélibée (Pierre Heugas, 1963);
• La Célestine (Aline Schulman, 2006).
Acto de Traso (1526).
Additional act, inserted after Act 18, with the intervention of Traso, character absent from the rest of the work and only mentioned in Act 16. This act appears in at least seven editions printed between 1526 and 1560. The last sentence of its argument says it was taken from the comedy arranged by a certain Sanabria (“El qual fue sacado de la Comedia que ordeno Sanabria”).
Spanish: 1557.
VERSIFIED VERSION
Juan Sedeño:
Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1540).
Spanish: 1540.
SEQUELS
Feliciano de Silva:
Segunda comedia de Celestina (1534).
Spanish: 1536;
1536;
1650;
1874.
Gaspar Gómez de Toledo:
Tercera parte de la tragicomedia de Celestina (1536).
Spanish: 1536;
1539;
1973.
Sancho de Muñón:
Tragicomedia de Lysandro y Roselia (1542).
Spanish: 1542;
1872;
1872;
1918 (shortened).
COMMENTARY
Anonymous:
Celestina comentada (16th century).
Spanish: manuscript.
IMITATION
Alfonso Velázquez de Velasco:
La Lena (1602).
Printed in 1613 as El Celoso.
Spanish: 1602;
1602;
1838.
Created on 25 June 2022. Updated on 28 June 2022.
