91
See Note B, p. 48.
92
See Note C, p. 49.
93
For discussions of the bibliographical problems, see R. Foulché-Delbosc, 'Observations sur la Célestine', RHi, vii (1900), 28-80; ix (1902), 171-99; lxxviii (1930) 544-99; Cejador, op. cit.; F. Vindel, El arte tipográfico en España durante el siglo XV, vol. vi (Madrid, 1950), 130-3, and vii (1951), xxv-xxvi; Clara L. Penney, The Book called Celestina in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America (New York, 1954). Recent studies concerned with the authorship of Act I are Pedro Bohigas, 'De la Comedia a la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea', Estudios dedicados a Menéndez Pidal, VII. i (Madrid, 1957), 153-75; Martín de Riquer, 'Fernando de Rojas y el primer acto de La Celestina', RFE, xli (1957), 373-95; and Marcel Bataillon, 'La Célestine primitive', Studia Philologica et Litteraria in Honorem L. Spitzer (Bern, 1958), 39-55
94
| 'Non qui parum habet, sed qui plura cupit, pauper est. (Seneca, Ad Lucilium, ii. 6) | pauper non est qui parum habet: sed qui multum cupit (De Rebus familiaribus Ep. 87 A) | que no los que
poco tienen son pobres; mas los que mucho dessean. (La Celestina, i. 103; 54) |
Petrarch, or the author of Act I, or both, may well have taken this from a collection of sententiae instead of taking it direct from Ad Lucilium. It does not appear in Cinco Libros de Séneca (Sevilla, Meynardo de Ungut Alimano y Stanislao Polono, 1491).
95
Fernando de Rojas is here and in the next two chapters assumed to be the author of Acts II-XVI of the original version, and of the 1502 interpolations. This assumption is made for more convenient reference; none of the argument depends on it, and the evidence which justifies it is discussed in Chapter V.
96
They come from 37 A, 47 B, 54 B, 89 V, and 96 A. (The index's style of reference is used throughout this chapter; in all Petrarch quotations, contractions are expanded and the use of u and v regularized. No corrections have been made in grammar or spelling).
97
De Rebus familiaribus, 19 AB, 42 in fin.
98
De Rebus memorandis, III. ii. 52. De Remediis, i. 50 E.
99
De Remediis, i. 19 D; i. 50 H.
100
rara is altered to cara in 1502.