The cause of his death in uncertain, and the whereabouts of his body unknown.Īdditional resources about Miguel de Cervantes. The second part was finally published to great acclaim in 1615, just a year before his death, at the age of 69, in 1616. In 1585, Cervantes published a pastoral novel named La Galatea. It was in 1597, while imprisoned in Sevilla for debt, that he began to write his greatest work, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Part I was published in 1605, and was almost immediately hailed as a masterpiece. He was captured by pirates in 1575, and spent the next five years as a prisoner in Algiers.įor almost all of the rest of his life Cervantes struggled to earn a living from writing and working in various lowly positions for the government.
In 1570 he enlisted with the Spanish forces stationed in Italy and fought in the naval battle of Lepanto, in which he was wounded, losing the use of his left hand. His impact on the Spanish language and literature is so huge that. He was a student at an arts school in Madrid in 1568, but moved to Rome in 1569. His Don Quixote is considered to be the first model novel of the modern literary style.
Virtually nothing is known of his childhood, apart from the fact that his father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, was a surgeon, a poorly paid profession in those days, and that the family were constantly on the move. Widely regarded as the worlds first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcala de Henares, near Madrid, Spain in 1547.
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