Fernando de Rojas, Comedia de Calixto y Melibea.

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Document	Date	Century	City	Province
Fernando de Rojas, Comedia de Calixto y Melibea.	1500	16cent/1/early	Toledo	Castilla-La Mancha

Summary

From: Fernando de Rojas, Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea (Toledo, 1500). Consulted in rojasTRAG, sig. A.vi; foulcheCALIX, p. 9; aribau1920, p. 6; criadoCE, p. 29. Quoted in knighton1992, p. 576.

CALISTO Semproniot
SEMPRONIO Sir!
CALISTO Give me that lute
SEMPRONLO Here it is sir
CALISTO Que dolor puede ser tal
que se iguale con mi mal?
SEMPRONIO That lute is Out of tune [...]
CALISTO ... But sing and play the saddest
song you know
SEMPRONJO
Mira nero de trapeya [sic]
a Roma como se ardia

From: rojasTRAG, sig. C.vii; foulcheCALIX, p. 50; aribau1920, p. 25; criadoCE, p. 89.
... and the best remedy he has, is taking a
vihuela, and he sings so many songs and such
pathetic ones [...] that although I know but
little of music, it seems he makes that vihuela
speak. And if by chance he sings, the birds
stop all the more willingly to hear him...

Document type	Subject	Siglum	Archive name	Call no.
literary print	Vihuelas Literature Lute

Original text

From: Fernando de Rojas, Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea (Toledo, 1500). Consulted in rojasTRAG, sig. A.vi; foulcheCALIX, p. 9; aribau1920, p. 6; criadoCE, p. 29. Quoted in knighton1992, p. 576.
CALISTO Sempronio
SEMPRONIO Señor
CALISTO Dame aca el laud
SEMPRONIO Señor veslo aquí
CALISTO Que dolor puede set tal
que se iguale con mi mal?
SEMPRONIO Destemplado esta esse laud [...]
CALISTO ... pero canta y tañe Ia mas triste
cancion que sepas
SEMPRONJO
Mira nero de trapeya [sic]
a Roma como se ardia

From: rojasTRAG, sig. C.vii; foulcheCALIX, p. 50; aribau1920, p. 25; criadoCE, p. 89.
... y el mayor remedio qua tiene es tomar
vna vihuela et tañe tantas cenciones et tan
lastimeras [...] que avnque yo se poco de
musica. paresce que haze aquella vihuela
hablar: pues si a caso canta: de mejor
gana se paran las aues a Ie oyr...

People mentioned

Name	Status when cited	Social status
Rojas, Fernando de	Living	Professional

Notes

Texts from corona1999, page 252

Bibliography

Code	Author	Item
corona1999	Corona-Alcalde, Antonio.	“The Players and Performance Practice of the Vihuela and its related Instruments, the Lute and the Guitar, from c. 1450 to c.1650. as revealed by a Study of Literary, Musical, Theoretical, and Archival Sources”. Diss. King's College, University of London, 1999.
aribau1920	Aribau, Buenaventura Carlos (ed.).	Novelistas anteriores a Cervantes. Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 3. Madrid: Sucesores de Hernando, 1920.
criadoCE	Criado de Val, Manuel (ed.).	Las celestinas. Barcelona: Clásicos Planeta 23, 1976.
damianiCEL	Damiani, Bruno Mario (ed.).	Fernando de Rojas. La Celestina. Madrid: Cátedra Letras Hispánicas 4, 1985.
foulcheCALIX	Foulché-Delbosc, Raymond (ed.).	Comedia de Calixto y Melibea. Madrid-Barcelona: Bibliotheca Hispanica 1, 1900.
knighton1992	Knighton, Tess.	“The a capella heresy in Spain: an inquisition into the performance of the cancionero repertory” Early Music 20/4 (November 1992): 651-581.
rojasTRAG	Rojas, Fernando de.	Tragicomedia de Calixto y Melibea. Salamanca, 1502.