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Analysing Literary Works in Fernando de Rojas' Will. Volume I.
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Title: Analysing Literary Works in Fernando de Rojas’ Will. Volume I.
Author: Dr. Govert Westerveld.
Publication Date: 2020.
ISBN/Publisher: Lulu Editors (719 pages).
Summary: This extensive 719-page investigative volume represents the first part of a landmark study analyzing the personal library of Fernando de Rojas (the author of La Celestina), which consisted of 49 books according to his 1541 legal testament. In this first volume, Dr. Govert Westerveld, official historian of the World Draughts Federation (FMJD), applies his pioneering "forensic history" methodology, computational stylometry (JGAAP), and lexicographical analysis (CORDE) to study the first 19 of these 49 books.
The book provides a systematic "toolbox" to help researchers determine the true authorship, editorial interventions, and clandestine networks behind early humanist printing in Spain. The research reveals that many of these works were not isolated literary creations, but collaborative products of the Oficina Lucena—a clandestine group of judeoconverso intellectuals led by the diplomat Juan Ramírez de Lucena and his sons, Francesch Vicent and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Out of the first 19 books studied, the author successfully isolates and identifies the unique "idiolect" of Fernando de Rojas in 5 of them, highlighting his hidden, prolific career beyond La Celestina.
Key Discoveries and Highlights:
- The First 19 Books of Rojas's Testament: Detailed textual and stylometric analysis of the initial 19 volumes listed in Rojas's will, including El libro de los Evangelios y Epístolas en romance (stylometrist: Gonzalo García Santa María), El Flos Sanctorum en romance (editorial prologue by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Alfonso de Palencia), and El Retablo de la vida de Christo (prose and argument by Fernando de Rojas, verses by Juan de Padilla).
- Methodological Rigor (Three Stylometric Routes): The book utilizes three distinct JGAAP testing configurations to isolate linguistic signatures: (1) a comparison database of authors up to 1500, (2) an database of authors between 1500 and 1560, and (3) a targeted direct comparison between the master profiles of Fernando de Rojas and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo.
- Unmasking the Camouflage of Oviedo: The author documents how Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (operating as "Lucena" due to his illegitimate lineage) employed an extensive network of editorial masks and pseudonyms, including Juan de Flores, Diego Fernández de San Pedro, Hernán Díaz, Jerónimo Fernández, Nicolás Núñez, and Juan Justiniano.
- The Case of "La conquista de Rodas" (Book 13): A forensic study of book number 13, traditionally attributed to Cristóbal de Arcos. JGAAP nearest-neighbor calculations prove that the actual idiolect corresponds to Gonzalo de Ayora, with important editorial and structural indicators pointing to the writing style of Fernando de Rojas in the preliminary texts.
- Cross-Verification via CORDE: Demonstrates how computational distance algorithms can be verified and reinforced by tracking highly specific lexical and morphological markers across five centuries of Spanish literature.
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