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Talk: Kenneth Brown on Fernando de Rojas at Museo La Celestina (La Puebla de Montalbán, 20/10/2023)

Next Friday, 20th of October of 2023, Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary) will be giving a lecture entitled “El mundo judío y criptojudío de Fernando de Rojas y de su obra La Celestina” at the Museo La Celestina in La Puebla de Montalbán (Spain).

This event is organised by the local journal Crónicas and the cultural association Las Cumbres de Montalbán, who are responsible for organising the academic roundtables and papers within the context the annual Festival Celestina, as well.

La Puebla de Montalbán seems to be progressively increasing the amount of events of celestinesque interest that take place in the Museo La Celestina, so that I would keep an eye on its future activities. It looks like as if the local institutions were actively trying to turn La Puebla de Montalbán into a relevant spot for celestinesque scholars and other people interested in Celestina. Let’s hope I am not wrong!

Museo La Celestina and Festival Celestina in La Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo)

After the announcement of the purchase of a facsimile of the Burgos edition of the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea by the Museo del Libro Fadrique de Basilea (announcement to which the Diario de Burgos and El Correo de Burgos have apparently devoted more attention than the official site of the museum), I remembered that there is a Museo de La Celestina in la Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo) which, as far as I know, already had a facsimile copy of the Burgos edition and has never made a big fuzz about it. This has lead me to discover that there is an annual Festival Celestina in La Puebla de Montalbán, which this year celebrates its fifteenth edition and takes place from the 23rd August to the 1st September. The programme has not been made public yet, but it looks like a good excuse to visit La Puebla de Montalbán.