![]() Thus he reconstructs the world of Rojas, country lawyer and converso, the social, religious, and intellectual milieu of Salamanca, of Spain during the Inquisition, of the converted Jew. Oilman, without speculating as rigorously and as learnedly as possible both on how it came to be and on how it could come to be. We cannot really know what the Celestina is, says Mr. Oilman builds up a vivid sense of the man behind the dialogue and establishes Fernando de Rojas indisputably as its author-a figure whom critics, while ranking his novel second only to Don Quixote, have treated as semi-anonymous or non-existent. Using the text of La Celestina as well as public and private archives in Spain, Mr. ![]() Stephen Gilman’s “ La Celestina” and the Spain of Fernando de Rojas adds a new dimension to critical studies of the fifteenth-century masterpiece. ![]() As a major piece of historical detective work. ![]()
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