The Spanish Bawd: La Celestina, being the tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea (Penguin classics)

Author(s): Rojas; J. M. Cohen (Translator)

Literature, Mythology, Legends - Classical/Medieval (including Studies)

Published in 1964. Translated with an Introduction by J. M. Cohen. The Penguin Classics Series L142.
Important Spanish work of literature, first published in 1499. The play marks the transition from Medieval writing to Renaissance literature and tells a tale not disimilar to that of Romeo & Juliet. 
Cover artwork of detail from a Spanish manuscript in the Musee de Chantilly.

Good condition. Light tanning on page edges.


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  • : 2471686889452
  • : Penguin Books
  • : 01 January 1964
  • : books

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  • : Rojas; J. M. Cohen (Translator)
  • : Softcover
  • : 248