The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea (Spanish: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), known in Spain as La Celestina is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. It really is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of converted Jews, who practiced law and, afterwards in life, offered as an alderman of Talavera de la Reina, an important commercial middle near Toledo.

The book is considered to be one of the biggest works of all Spanish literature, and traditionally marks the end of medieval about La Celestina – A VINTAGE Spanish Novel literature and the beginning of the literary renaissance in Spain. Although usually regarded as a book, it is created as a continuous group of dialogues and will be taken like a play, having been staged therefore and filmed.

The storyplot tells of a bachelor, Calisto, who uses the old procuress Celestina to start out an affair with Melibea, an unmarried girl kept in seclusion by her parents. Although two utilize the rhetoric of courtly love, sex, not marriage is their aim. When he dies in an incident, she commits suicide. The name Celestina is becoming associated with procuress, specifically an older woman used to further an illicit affair, and is a literary archetype of this character, the masculine counterpart being Pandarus.