by Fernando de Rojas · La Galera, SAU · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424643539
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«La Celestina» is the classic Castilian tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas, published by La Galera in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Calisto becomes obsessed with Melibea and, rejected by her, follows the advice of his servant Sempronio and turns to Celestina, a procuress expert in arranging love affairs. The intervention of the old procuress unleashes a chain of deceptions and personal interests that drags all the protagonists towards a tragic outcome.
Edition adapted into modern Spanish, with introduction, notes and didactic proposal by Jorge León Gustà. Number 30 of the La llave maestra collection.
Edition designed for secondary school students, with supplementary material for working on the classic in the classroom.
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".
