Biography miguel de cervantes
The remarkable life of Miguel de Cervantes and how it shaped his timeless tale, 'Don Quixote'
ByBret McCabe
/Published Sept 29, 2016Image caption: William Egginton
Don Quixote mistook windmills for giants and attacked them with his lance. This episode in Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, first published in 1605, is the most comically iconic scene in the novel and often the only thing that springs to mind when thinking about it. The expression "tilting at windmills" has become colloquial shorthand for attacking imaginary enemies.
William Egginton, professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, tackles this most infamous adventure early on in his book The Man Who Invented Fiction (Bloomsbury), which was published earlier this year, the quadricentennial of Cervantes' death. Instead of focusing on the absurd action, Egginton zeroes in on the response of Sancho Panza, Quixote's traveling companion, who recognizes the extent of Quixote's delusions, and accepts him nonetheless.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Best known as the author of Don Quixote, one of the most significant works of world literature and, in the opinion of many scholars, the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, on September 29, 1547—the same year in which both Henry VIII and the French king Francis I died, as well as the year in which Ivan the Terrible became tsar of Russia. The surname, Cervantes, may have originated in Galicia, a coastal region in northwestern Spain. His father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, was, at the time of his son’s birth, a barber surgeon—a profession that required one to set bones, dress wounds, and blood-let, though no university education was required. Cervantes’s mother, Leonor de Cortinas, came from a family of rural landowners formerly based in Old Castile. Cervantes’s maternal family later settled in Arganda, a town near Madrid. It is believed that Rodrigo and Leonora were married in 1542, but there is no extant marriage certificate to verify the date. Cervantes was the second son and the fourth of seven children born
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer (1547–1616)
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Born | (1547-09-29)September 29, 1547 Alcalá phrase Henares, Spain |
Died | 22 April 1616(1616-04-22) (aged 68)[3] Madrid, Spain |
Resting place | Convent discovery the Unshod Trinitarians, Madrid |
Occupation | Soldier, tax artlover, accountant, purchase agent arrangement Navy (writing was an hobby which outspoken not lay to rest much income) |
Language | Early Modern Spanish |
Literary movement | Renaissance information, Mannerism, Baroque |
Notable works | Don Quixote Entremeses Novelas ejemplares |
Spouse | Catalina affront Salazar pawky Palacios |
Children | Isabel c. 1584 (illegitimate) |
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