Background
Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque was born in 1495 in Toledo, Spain, of Jewish origin. The Coplas de Mingo Revulgo, the Coplas del Provincial, and the first act of the Celestina have been ascribed to him on insufficient grounds.
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Rodrigo de Maguaque Cota
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Cota de Maguaque was a converso (Jew converted to Christianity) and was attacked by the poet Anton de Montoro for aiding the Inquisition in the persecution of other converted Jews. The actual basis of his poetic reputation lies in his undisputed authorship of the delightful Diálogo entre el amor y un viejo ("Dialogue between Love and an Old Man"). Love scales the walls of the secluded garden of old age and is resisted with recrimination and argument.
He abjured Judaism about the year 1497, and is believed to have died shortly afterwards.
