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Testament of Fernando de Rojas. Pursuit of the missing writer
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Title: Testament of Fernando de Rojas. Pursuit of the missing writer.
Author: Dr. Govert Westerveld.
Publication Date: 2020 (Copyright August 13, 2020).
ISBN: 978-1-71680-426-7 (Hardcover – Lulu Editors).
Summary: In this pivotal investigative work, Dr. Govert Westerveld, official historian of the World Draughts Federation (FMJD), applies his "forensic history" methodology to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Spanish Renaissance: the "missing" literary career of Fernando de Rojas, the author of La Celestina. While traditional scholarship suggests Rojas wrote only one masterpiece, this book hopes to provide scientific evidence that he could have been a writer who operated within a clandestine network of judeoconverso intellectuals.
The author utilizes the text of Rojas’s 1541 Testament (analyzed in versions of 14kb, 28kb, and 38kb) to isolate the author’s "pure idiolect". By crossing this linguistic fingerprint with unidentified manuscripts and works traditionally attributed to others, Dr. Westerveld unmasks the hidden literary output of Rojas and his deep collaboration with the Oficina Lucena, led by the diplomat Juan Ramírez de Lucena and his sons, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francesch Vicent.
Key Discoveries and Highlights:
- Stylometric Validation (JGAAP): Using the Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program, the author identifies the unique linguistic traits in Rojas’s will to track his hand in other Renaissance texts.
- Unmasking MS 8756: A groundbreaking correction of previous attributions; the research proves that the MS 8756 of King Francis I of France, long thought to be by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, could have been written by Fernando de Rojas.
- The Missing Years: The book reconstructs the collaboration between Rojas and Lucena (Vicent), proving that the two primary architects of modern strategic thought and literature worked as an editorial team to survive the Inquisition.
- Early Sephardic Works: Analysis suggests Rojas’s involvement in early works such as the Siddur Tefillot (1493) and the Manual de mujeres.
- The "Winning Move": The work tries to demonstrate how Rojas used "literary camouflage," publishing under strategic pseudonyms or contributing anonymously to the collective projects of the Lucena clan.
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