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- Title
El converso Fernando de Rojas a la luz del expediente Palavesín.
- Authors
Pérez López, José Luis
- Abstract
This article reviews and expands our documentary information about the Bachiller Fernando de Rojas's situation as a converso, a fact which has been denied or down-played by some critics to the point of being treated as an irrelevance to the study of the genesis and meaning of La Celestina. Nonetheless, the documents imply that the father of the Bachiller was in all probability the same Hernando de Rojas condemned by the Inquisition as a ‘judaizante’ in Toledo in 1488. The documents prove that the Rojas family left Toledo for the Puebla de Montalbán fleeing inquisitorial persecution, and that the ‘probanza de hidalguía’ of the author's grandson, the Licenciado Fernando, ended with the plaintiff dropping the case before there could be an unfavourable verdict, as had occurred in a similar suit brought by his relatives the Francos. I study the proceedings of purity of blood of Juan Francisco Palavesín y Rojas (Archivo de la Catedral de Toledo, Exp. 122), and I print the facsimile and transcription of the family tree of the Francos, belonging to the said proceedings. Finally, I discuss a new document which has not been previously studied by critics, which comes from the Archivo Histórico Nacional, and which could provide a snapshot of the family of the Bachiller in the Puebla de Montalbán in 1497.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; LA Celestina (Book : Rojas); SPANISH Inquisition, 1478-1820; ROJAS, Fernando de, d. 1541; MARRANOS; EMBARGO
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2006, Vol 83, Issue 4, p285
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Article