The racy and irreverent Spanish tragicomedy that is considered the first European novel-in a spirited new translation A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the fate of Calisto and Melibea, the young lovers she unites using her wiles as a seller of perfumes and potions. Fernando de Rojas's exhilarating mix of street wit, obscenity, and cultured rhetoric mark Celestina as a masterpiece: an original, explosive, genre-defying work that paved the way for the picaresque novel and for Cervantes.

Celestina (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

DE ROJAS,FERNANDO

Humor & Satire

Penguin Publishing Group

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La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea : Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primitivo De Diez Y ... Apéndice El Auto De Traso (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Wentworth Press

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A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to Don Quixote in its cultural importance, Rojas’s dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning translator Margaret Sayers Peden. After a chance encounter with Melibea leaves Calisto entranced by her charms, he enlists the services of Celestina, an aged prostitute, madam, and procuress, to arrange another meeting. She promptly seizes control of the affair, guiding it through a series of mishaps before it meets its tragic end. At times a comic character and at others a self-assertive promoter of women’s sexual license, Celestina is an inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, certain to be relished by a new generation of readers.

Celestina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

United States

Yale University Press

The first European novel, exquisitely translated by Margaret Sayers Peden A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to DonQuixote in its cultural importance, Rojas’s dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning translator Margaret Sayers Peden.
After a chance encounter with Melibea leaves Calisto entranced by her charms, he enlists the services of Celestina, an aged prostitute, madam, and procuress, to arrange another meeting. She promptly seizes control of the affair, guiding it through a series of mishaps before it meets its tragic end. At times a comic character and at others a self-assertive promoter of women’s sexual license, Celestina is an inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, certain to be relished by a new generation of readers.

Dramas & Plays

Celestina: Or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea

Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James

Mabbe, James

Franklin Classics

The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations of all literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, the greatest of the forebears of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously, in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.

The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue

History & Criticism

University of California Press

The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations in all of literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, a forebear of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.\nFrom the Inside Flap\n“Lesley Byrd Simpson, so thoroughly qualified to undertake this labor of love, has done a very painstaking and accurate job. . . . Simpson has quite consciously streamlined [this work] . . . making for a smoother, racier, more readable translation.”—Hispanic Review\nFrom the Back Cover\n“Lesley Byrd Simpson, so thoroughly qualified to undertake this labor of love, has done a very painstaking and accurate job. . . . Simpson has quite consciously streamlined [this work] . . . making for a smoother, racier, more readable translation.”—Hispanic Review

The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue (World Literature in Translation)

Genre Fiction

Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Kessinger Publishing

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Celestina (Penguin Classics)

La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea : Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primitivo De Diez Y ... Apéndice El Auto De Traso (Spanish Edition)

La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea : Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primitivo De Diez Y ... Apéndice El Auto De Traso (Spanish Edition)

Celestina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Celestina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Celestina: Or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea

Celestina: Or the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea

The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue

The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue (World Literature in Translation)

Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea