Mingo. Dò me a Dios, que estoy asmado. No me mandes entrar mas. [129] In the edition of 1599, which I have consulted, the work is entitled _Celestina, tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea_. The first letter of each of the introductory stanzas, being put together, form the following words:--El bachiler Fernando de Rojas _acabò_ la comedia de Calisto y Melibea, e fue nacido en la puebla de Montalvan. [130] The following specimens may be cited. Callistus is discoursing with his servant, concerning his passion for Melibœa. _Ca._ Mayor es mi fuego, y menor la piedad de quien agora digo.--_Sem._ No me engaño que loco està aste mi amo.--_Ca._ Que estàs murmurando Sempronio?--_Sem._ No digo nada.--_Ca._ Di lo que dizes: no temas.--_Sem._ Digo que como pueda ser mayor el fuego que atormenta un bivo, que el que quemó tal ciudad y tanta multitud de gente?--_Ca._ Como? yo telo dire: mayor es la llama que dura ochenta años que la que en un dia passa; y mayor la que quema un anima, que la que quemó cien mil cuerpos. Como de la aparencia a la existencia, como de lo vivo a lo pintado; como de la sombra a lo real: tanta differencia ay del fuego que dizes al que me quema. Por cierto si el del purgatorio es tal, mas querria que mi espiritu fuesse con los de los brutos animales, que por medio de aquel yr a la gloria de los santos.--_Sem._ Algo es lo que digo, a mas ha de yr este hecho: no basta loco, sino hereje.--_Ca._ No te digo que hables alto quando hablares? Que dizes?--_Sem._ Digo que nunca Dios quiera tal: que es especie de herejia lo que agora dixiste.--_Ca._ Porque?--_Sem._ Porque lo que dizes contradize la Christiana religion.--_Ca._ Que a mi?--_Sem._ Tu no eres Christiano?--_Ca._ Yo Melibieo soy, e a Melibea adoro, e en Melibea creo, e a Melibea amo. [131] About the same period, the dramatic prose dialogue of Italy was formed in a similar style, but with more histrionic refinement. See vol. ii. of my history of Italian Literature. [132] The dramatic romance of Callistus and Melibœa, has been translated into several languages as a book of moral instruction. There is an old German translation which appeared at Nurnberg in 1520, entitled the _Hurenspiegel_. The German philologist, Caspar Barth, translated it into Latin under the title of _Pornoboscodidascalus_, and styles it, _Liber plane divinus_. It was published at Frankfort on the Oder, in 1624. [133] One may become acquainted with these old Spanish chronicles with more facility than formerly; for during the last thirty years the greater part of them have been re-printed. A folio edition of the copious chronicle of Peres de Guzman was printed at Valencia, in the year 1779, with an elegance which proves the patriotic zeal of the editors: the chronicle of Ayala was printed at Madrid in the same year. Literature is indebted for this revival of the fathers of Spanish History, to the efforts of the Historical Academy of Madrid.