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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Was Born September 29
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Was Born September 29
In 1572 joins the company of don Manuel Ponce de Len, the third of don
Lope de Figueroa, and already as a "soldier privileged", participates in
several military campaigns during the following years: Navarino and La
Goleta are the most important. Meanwhile, it remains in the barracks of
winter in Sicily, Sardinia, and Naples. Get letters of recommendation of don
Juan and the Duke of Sessa and decides to return to Spain in 1575.
The years that Cervantes was captive served to nourish many pages of
his works, from the Galatea to the Persiles, passing by the captive captain of
the first Quixote, and not to mention the treatment of Algiers or the baths of
Algiers.
single "portrait" true, apart from the portrait of Jauregui, are self
description that the author placed at the beginning of his exemplary novels,
published in 1613, when Cervantes was already 66 years old.
During the "Lepanto" battle against the Turks, Cervantes left two
arcabuzazos wounded in the chest and a hand, which was damaged. Hence
comes the nickname of "The one-armed man of Lepanto". The left hand was
not cut him, but he is petrified into authoritarian to lose the motion when a
piece of lead cut him a nerve.
La Galatea (1585)
liberal lover
Riconete y Cortadillo
Licenciado Vidriera
Poetry:
Theatre:
Tragedy of Numancia
Treatment of Algiers
Comedies
The entertaining
El rufin dichoso
Pedro de Urdemales
hors d'oeuvres
careful guardian
Vizcano fingido
Poesa:
El viaje del Parnaso (1614)
Teatro:
Tragedia de Numancia
Trato de Argel
Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses
Comedias
El gallardo espaol
Los baos de Argel
La gran sultana doa Catalina de Oviedo
La casa de los celos
El laberinto de amor
La entretenida
El rufin dichoso
Pedro de Urdemales
Entremeses
El juez de los divorcios
El rufin viudo llamado Trampagos
La eleccin de los alcaldes de Daganzo
La guarda cuidadosa
El vizcano fingido
El retablo de las maravillas
La cueva de Salamanca
El viejo celoso