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Fernando de Rojas

1470 - 1541

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Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73, 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".Rojas wrote La Celestina while still a student. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando de Rojas has received more than 98,877 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fernando de Rojas is the 1,888th most popular writer (up from 1,900th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Spain (down from 628th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 27

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fernando de Rojas ranks 1,888 out of 5,755Before him are Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Augustin Barruel, Zinaida Gippius, Pierre Klossowski, Caterina Albert, and George Adamski. After him are Baba Tahir, Julien Gracq, Avraham Stern, Caecilius Statius, Eustathius of Thessalonica, and Philippe Quinault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Fernando de Rojas ranks 16Before him are György Dózsa, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Juan Díaz de Solís, Catherine of Navarre, Lucrezia de' Medici, and Tang Yin. After him are Vincenzo Catena, João I of Kongo, Wen Zhengming, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Marco Basaiti, and Ludovico di Varthema. Among people deceased in 1541, Fernando de Rojas ranks 14Before him are Gazi Husrev-beg, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Bernard van Orley, Thomas Culpeper, and Andreas Karlstadt. After him are Juan de Valdés and Wolfgang Capito.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Fernando de Rojas ranks 651 out of 2,932Before him are Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550), Diego Laynez (1512), Luis de León (1527), Jacint Verdaguer (1845), Thomas of Villanova (1486), and Caterina Albert (1869). After him are Eulogius of Córdoba (810), Pilar Bardem (1939), Juande Ramos (1954), Ahmad al-Muqtadir (1050), Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), and Ferdinand de la Cerda (1255).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Fernando de Rojas ranks 73Before him are Jorge Manrique (1440), Abbot Oliba (971), José de Acosta (1540), Luis de León (1527), Jacint Verdaguer (1845), and Caterina Albert (1869). After him are Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (1080), Jaume Cabré (1947), Mariano José de Larra (1809), Ramón Sampedro (1943), Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833), and Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943).