171
See p. 70.
172
See p. 69. The passage from Epistolae Rerum senilium reads: 'hic non possedit divitias sed a divitiis possessus est. Quod Davitice sententie consonat ubi ait, dormierunt somnum suum et nihil invenerunt omnes viri divitiarum in manibus suis. Audis ut non divitias virorum sed viros divitiarum signanter dixit ac mordaciter. Sed sit modus epistole. Tu vero divitiarum tuarum dominus esto non servus, dumque adhuc invenire aliquid in manibus tuis potes: ter vocatus expergiscere'.
173
Samonà, op. cit. 86 n., says that 'perdiste el nombre de libre, quando catiuaste tu voluntad' (La Celestina, i. 122; 66) is a commonplace of the Petrarchan lyric, and refers his readers to Petrarch's Canzone iii. He does not say that this is the source for Rojas, but limits himself to the phrase 'con parole somiglianti'. The words are not, however, similar, and it is hard to see any connexion between the two passages.
174
Cf. Rafael Lapesa. La trayectoria poética de Garcilaso (Madrid, 1948) and La obra literaria del Marqués de Santillana.
175
Samonà, 147 et seq., discusses Celestina's speeches in their stylistic aspect.
176
Rojas knew this Dialogue well, making two borrowings directly from it.
177
See chapter VII
178
Only nine borrowings are added to acts before Celestina's death, and she uses a majority of them.
179
There is one animal exemplum of the type used by many medieval writers, but it occurs in the acrostic verses (i. 9-10; 7-8), and its origin is not Petrarchan.
180
See M. Serrano y Sanz, 'Noticias biográficas de Fernando de Rojas, autor de La Celestina, y del impresor Juan de Lucena', Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos, 3ª época, vi (1902), 245-99; F. del Valle Lersundi, 'Documentos referentes a Fernando de Rojas', RFE, xii (1925), 385-96 and 'Testamento de Fernando de Rojas, autor de La Celestina', ibid. xvi (1929), 366-88; L. Careaga, 'Investigaciones referentes a Fernando de Rojas en Talavera de la Reina', Revista Hispánica Moderna, iv (1938), 193-208. The articles by Otis H. Green cited in Chap. 7 and the Bibliography have not added greatly to the information available.