Christian love in Fernando de Rojas' Tragicomedia and Feliciano de Silva's Segunda Celestina

Abstract

The present work aims to explore the perception of love in the Christian context, with the attempt to recognize the implementation and changes in customs that are evident in two literary productions that have Celestina as the protagonist, the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea by Fernando de Rojas and La Segunda Celestina written by Feliciano de Silva. The central hypothesis of this essay considers that between the writing of Rojas and that of Silva, both the evil of love and the conquest of the beloved suffer a process of evolution gradually. We refer to an accentuation of the Christian values and foundations recognized at the time as primordial; in such a way that a conversion of the central plot occurs, bringing the second work closer to the Christian notion of love, as part of the matrimonial ideal.