biography
pronunciation:
[rokhas]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1465–1541)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, C Spain. He studied in Salamanca and was induced by racial discrimination to move from his native town to Talavera, where he became mayor, and where he died. His Jewish parents had been forcibly converted, and it has been argued that his novel in dramatic form, La comedia (later more familiar as La tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), is a roman-à-clef on the conversos in Spain. The novel, the most important literary work produced in 15th-c Spain, is popularly known as La Celestina. Foulché-Delbosc denied the ascription to Rojas until conclusive biographical data were discovered and published by M Serrano y Sanz and by F del Valle Lersundi. |
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