Quote of the day
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Fernando de Rojas
Born: 1465
Died: 1541 (aged 76)
Bio: Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or the first work of the Spanish Renaissance".