Carefully and judiciously edited by Mac E. Barrick, the Tercera Celestina is a rare piece of Spanish Renaissance prose fiction, a literary masterpiece, and a mine of linguistic and proverbial materials.
"The need for a modern edition . . . has now been amply met. . . . The carefully prepared critical edition, with footnotes that reflect the variants of the 1539 Toledo edition, is preceded by an introductory study." (Renaissance Quarterly)