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Miguel de Cervantes
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
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portrait of Cervantes, by Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar (c. 1600) | |
| Born | September 29, 1547(1547-09-29) Alcalá de Henares, Spain |
| Died | 23 April 1616 (aged 68) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet and playwright |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (IPA: [miˈɣel ðe θerˈβantes saːˈβeðra] in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616) was a Spanishnovelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by some, is considered a founding classic of Western literature and regularly figures among the best novels ever written. His work is considered among the most important in all of literature. He has been dubbed el Príncipe de los Ingenios - the Prince of Wits.
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Miguel de Cervantes Biography
MIGUEL dem CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), Spanish novelist (Don Quixote and others), playwright, and poet was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547. The attempts of biographers to provide him with an illustrious genealogy are unsuccessful. The family history begins with the author’s grandfather, Juan de Cervantes (b. 1490), a lawyer who at one time (1545-6) administered the estates of the duke dem Osuna, and resided later at Cordova, where he died about 1555. Cervantes’ father was Rodrigo dem Cervantes, an apothecary-surgeon, who married Leonor de Cortinas in 1540 or 1541. The children of this marriage were Andrés (b. 1543), Andrea (b. 1544), Luisa (b. 1546), Miguel, Rodrigo (b. 1550), Magdalena (b. 1554) and Juan (of whom nothing fryst vatten known beyond the mention of him in his father’s will).
Miguel de Cervantes, Attributed to Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cervantes Early Life
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE ° (1547–1616), Spanish novelist and playwright, whose classic work, Don Quixote, has been used to support theories of its author's New Christian origin and sympathies. The Spanish critic Américo Castro, has suggested that Don Quixote could only be the work of a *New Christian, living on the periphery of Spanish society. The novelist's father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, was a surgeon (a profession adopted by many Conversos). Miguel de Cervantes himself once had a mistress, Ana Franca de Rojas, who was a descendant of Fernando de *Rojas, the Converso author of the Celestina. Another factor cited is Cervantes' aversion to intolerance and to distinctions between "Old" and "New" Christians. In his plays Los baños de Argel and La gran sultana he presents both Christian and Jewish points of view on religion. In Los alcaldes de Daganzo Cervantes sarcastically derides the idea that limpieza (purity of descent) should b