Fernando de Rojas

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Fernando de Rojas
Rojas by unknown contemporary artist
Mayor of Talavera de la Reina, 1530s
Personal details
Born	c. 1465/73 La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain
Died	(1541-04-00)April , 1541 (aged 67-68 or 75-76) Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain
Spouse	Leonor Álvarez de Montalbán
Children	7
Alma mater	University of Salamanca
Occupation	Author, dramatist, lawyer
Known for	Writing La Celestina (1499)

Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73,^[1] in La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain – April 1541, in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first work of the Spanish Renaissance".^[2]

Rojas wrote La Celestina while still a student. After graduating he practised law and is not known to have written any further literary works, although La Celestina achieved widespread success during his lifetime. Despite difficulties with the Inquisition, Rojas was a successful lawyer and became mayor of Talavera de la Reina, where he lived for the last three decades of his life.