Fernando de Rojas
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Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465, La Puebla de Montalbán, New Castile (now Toledo) - April 1541, Talavera de la Reina, Spain) was a Castilian author who probably went to the University of Salamanca. He was a converso, a Jew converted to Christianity. He is known for writing La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea) in 1499.
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- La Celestina, available freely at Project Gutenberg