Key Points

• His only work, La Celestina, marks the transition from the Spanish Middle Ages to the Renaissance

• Wrote his masterpiece while still a law student at the University of Salamanca

• Characters experienced in life, with personality and style different from the fixed types of medieval literature

• His work constitutes a bitter critique of human nature

• Despite difficulties with the Inquisition due to his Jewish ancestry , the novel achieved widespread success

Relevant Works

• La Celestina