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	Miguel de Cervantes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cervantes was the first writer who formed the genuine romance of modern times on the model of the original chivalrous romance that equivocal creation of the genius and the barbarous taste of the Middle Ages.
		Cervantes doubtless intended that they should be to the Spaniards nearly what the novels of Boccaccio were to the Italians, some are mere anecdotes, some are romances in miniature, some are serious, some comic, and all are written in a light, smooth, conversational style.
		Cervantes includes some of his dramas among those productions with which he was himself most satisfied; and he seems to have regarded them with the greater self-complacency in proportion as they experienced the neglect of the public.This conduct has sometimes been attributed to a spirit of contradiction, and sometimes to vanity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes (6129 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547 and christened on October 9 of that year in (Click link for more info and facts about Alcalá de Henares) Alcalá de Henares, (A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power) Spain.
		Cervantes' family was poverty-stricken and, according to some, his sisters had to resort to unorthodox procedures to be able to collect the required sum.
		Cervantes began writing (The hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical) Don Quixote in 1597 while imprisoned in (A city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain) Sevilla for debt.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/miguel_de_cervantes.htm (1093 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes
		Cervantes was extremely proud of his role in the famous victory and of the nickname he earned, el manco de Lepanto.
		Cervantes was released in 1580, and after the return to Madrid he held several temporary administrative post.
		Cervantes' idea was to give a picture of real life and manners and to express himself in clear language, "in simple, honest, and well-measured words," as he stated in the prologue to Part I of Don Quixote.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.163 (598 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes - Biography and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature.
		Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, a town near Madrid, into a family of the minor nobility.
		Cervantes was released in 1580, and after the return to Madrid he held several temporary administrative posts Cervantes started his literary career in Andalusia in 1580.
	www.online-literature.com /cervantes (460 words)

	MSN Encarta - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish writer, considered by many to be the greatest Spanish author, whose novel Don Quixote (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615) is regarded as one of the masterpieces of world literature.
		Cervantes then took government jobs, first furnishing goods to the fleet of the Spanish Armada and later collecting taxes.
		Probably during his time in prison Cervantes conceived the idea for a story about a man who imagines himself a knight-errant (a knight who seeks out adventure) performing the splendid feats described in medieval tales of chivalry.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563857/Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra.html (839 words)

	Don Miguel Cervantes y Saavedra
		Don Miguel Cervantes y Saavedra is best known today for writing ‘Don Quixote.’; However, in his day, he was also known as the author of numerous other books, plays, and poems.
		Don Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra was born in 1547, probably in the late summer/early fall, and christened October 9, 1547 in Alcala de Hernares.
		Cervantes, on his way back to Spain by sea, was attacked, captured, and made prisoner of, by Algerian corsairs.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2cervantes.htm (491 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes - Books and Biography
		Cervantes was extremely proud of his role in the famous victory and of the nickname he earned, el manco de Lepanto (the cripple of Lepanto).
		Cervantes was released in 1580, with the payment of 500 escudos raised by his family and the Trinitarian order.
		When a nobleman, Gaspar de Ezpeleta, was mortally wounded on the street in front of Cervantes' house, and died there, Cervantes and the women in his household were jailed on suspicion of having had something to do with his death.
	www.readprint.com /author-17/Miguel-de-Cervantes (608 words)

	CERVANTES
		Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and settled in this capital.
		It was hinted that the women in Cervante's house were too familiar with certain distinguished gentlemen.
		Nevertheless, Cervantes economic situation was always precarious, but he never gave up the idea of traveling to Naples as the secretary to the viceroy, Comte of Lemos, to whom he devoted his posthumous book, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617).
	www.spanisharts.com /books/masters/cervantes.htm (524 words)

	ENGLISH
		When Cervantes saw what had befallen them, he charged his companions to lay all the blame upon him, and as they were being bound he declared aloud that the whole plot was of his contriving, and that nobody else had any share in it.
		Cervantes from certain solecisms of language pronounces him to be an Aragonese, and Pellicer, an Aragonese himself, supports this view and believes him, moreover, to have been an ecclesiastic, a Dominican probably.
		Cervantes' humour is for the most part of that broader and simpler sort, the strength of which lies in the perception of the incongruous.
	www.donquixote.com /english.html (11316 words)

	Don Quixote
		Cervantes is considered to be one of the greatest figures of both Spanish and world literature.
		Cervantes received little formal education and early in his life found employment in a cardinal's home in Rome.
		Once critic said, "Cervantes ranks with Shakespeare and Homer as a citizen of the world, a man of all times an countries, and Don Quixote, with Hamlet and the Iliad, belongs to universal literature.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/mills/quixote.htm (477 words)

	Encyclopedia: Miguel Cervantes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cervantes fled to Italy where some elegies he wrote were published.
		He also joined a Spanish regiment there and was wounded while fighting in the Battle of Lepanto against the Turks in 1571; as a consequence, he lost the use of his left hand.
		The bey seems to have a great appreciation for the young Cervantes, since he demands the astounding sum of 500 gold escudos as ransom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Miguel-Cervantes (729 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Monografias.com
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra tuvo una vida azarosa de la que poco se sabe con seguridad.
		Cervantes afirmó varias veces que su primera intención era mostrar a los lectores de la época los disparates de las novelas de caballerías.
		Pero Cervantes va mucho más allá, adueñándose de la máxima libertad artística que un autor haya logrado jamás.
	www.monografias.com /trabajos/cervantes/cervantes.shtml (2584 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain's greatest literary figure, was born in Alcalá de Henares, a small university town near Madrid, where he was baptized in the church of Santa María on October 9, 1547; he died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
		The fourth of seven children, Cervantes, his siblings and mother accompanied his father, an itinerant surgeon, who struggled to maintain his practice and his family by traveling the length and breadth of Spain.
		Despite his father's frequent travels, Cervantes received some early formal education, in the school of the Spanish humanist, Juan Lopez de Hoyos, who was teaching in Madrid in the 1560s.
	quixote.mse.jhu.edu /Cervantes.html (530 words)

	Temple of Miguel de Cervantes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish writer, whose novel Don Quixote (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615) is regarded as one of the masterpieces of world literature.
		Cervantes then took government jobs, including one collecting taxes, but he was imprisoned several times for failing to explain all of his tax-collecting activities.
		Cervantes also published a collection of short stories, Exemplary Novels (1613), and completed the allegorical novel Persiles y Sigismunda (1617) four days before his death.
	www.sangha.net /messengers/Cervantes.htm (331 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cervantes was born in Alcala de Henares, a town 20 miles from Madrid, on September 29, 1547.
		Cervantes valiantly fought in the Gulf of Lepanto, an area near Greece.
		Cervantes' use of irony came to be admired and Don Quixote came to be seen at times as a comic hero and at others as a tragic hero driven by impossible dreams.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_miguel_cervantes.html (709 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Miguel de Cervantes (1547) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel de Cervantes, born in Alcala de Henares in 1547,; was the son of a surgeon who presented himself as a nobleman, although Cervantes's mother seems to have been a descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity.
		As a result of money problems with the government, Cervantes was thrown into jail in Seville in 1597; but in 1605 he was in Valladolid, then seat of the government, just when the immediate success of the first part of his Don Quixote,; published in Madrid,; signaled his return to the literary world.
		Certain recent biographers--such as Andres Trapiello (Las vidas de Cervantes, Barcelona, 1993) and, not without a hint of scandal, Fernando Arrabal (Un esclavo llamado Cervantes, Paris and Madrid,; 1996)--have revived the tradition of romanticized biographies in which the biographer's personality obliterates that of the writer whose life is the supposed subject.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=119 (992 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		Of Cervantes it may be most truly said that the narrative of his life is no less fraught with interest than the most exciting novel of adventure.
		The book was probably intended by Cervantes chiefly as a work of entertainment; as such it succeeded in his time and as such it still elicits the enthusiatic interest of constantly increasing generations of readers.
		Those persons are far astray who suppose that Cervantes meant to assail the Inquisition, to attack the firmly rooted devotion to the Blessed Virgin, or to deride the clergy as a class.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03543a.htm (2064 words)

	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: A searchable online version at The Literature Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel Cervantes satirizes society through the use if this errant knight and his trusty sidekick.
		In some ways I think Cervantes made a character who dove into a dream world, because many of us dream of being a hero or of being something we are not.
		Miguel de Cervantes does an excellent job in relating this by showing the reader a blue-print of Don Quixote's mind.
	www.online-literature.com /cervantes/don_quixote (1672 words)

	Articles - Miguel de Cervantes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cervantes was born at Alcalá de Henares, Spain, on a day not recorded, but since he was named Miguel it is guessed he was born on the feast day of St.
		Cervantes also wrote many plays, only two of which have survived; short novels, and the vogue obtained by Cervantes's story led to the publication of a continuation of it by an unknown who masqueraded under the name of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda.
		It is worth mentioning that the Encyclopedia Hispanica claims the date widely quoted as Cervantes' date of death, namely April 23, is the date on his tombstone which in accordance of the traditions of Spain at the time would be his date of burial rather than date of death.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Miguel_Cervantes (6276 words)

	Biographies: Persons of Literature: The Classical Fiction Writers: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616).
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born Alcalá, Spain.
		Early in his career Cervantes was a soldier and suffered serious wounds, one of which almost carried away his left hand.
		In the name of justice and chivalry he intruded himself on all whom he met, and assaulted all whom he took to be making an oppressive or discourteous use of power.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Cervantes.htm (219 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra @ Catharton Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The son of a Spanish doctor, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547 in a town called Alcalá de Henares (now a suburb of modern Madrid).
		During the 1560s Cervantes was taught by a famous Spanish humanist, Juan López de Hoyos, at a school in Madrid.
		Cervantes was fairly badly wounded on the chest and head.
	www.catharton.com /authors/3.htm (631 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes - Free Online Library
		Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá, Spain in 1547.
		During the voyage back to Spain, he was captured by Algerian corsairs and spent five years as a slave in Algiers, during which he tried to escape four times, before he was ransomed and returned to his family.
		In 1605, Cervantes returned to the literary scene with the successful publication of the first part of Don Quixote, his best-known work (which, tradition holds, he wrote while in prison).
	cervantes.thefreelibrary.com (369 words)

	CERVANTES IN CYBERSPAIN
		Cervantes tried as hard as he could to be a good poet "the heavens would not grant me such grace"--as he would often say--but the great bulk of his works have been lost.
		lso it is important to note that Cervantes introduced into the entremeses new elements from the novel from, such as the simplification of the action, descriptions typical of novels, and a depth to the characters used.
		The Cervantes Institute, one of the standards of the Spanish culture and letters around the world, following on the principles of the master, makes possible, through a myriad of activities, the diffusion of the spirit and dignity of our language to all of the corners of the earth.
	www.cyberspain.com /year (1255 words)

	Cervantes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
		Cervantes de Leon, a character in the Soul Calibur series of fighting games
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cervantes (94 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes. Biography and complete works
		Little is known of his early years, but it seems that Cervantes spent much of is childhood Cervantes spent moving from town to town while his father sought work.
		For the world at large interest in Cervantes centres particularly in Don Quixote, and this has been regarded chiefly as a novel of purpose.
		The picaroon strain, already made familiar in Spain by the Lazarillo de Tormes and its successors, appears in one or another of them especially in the Rinconete y Cortadillo, which is the best of all.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/cervantes.htm (1017 words)

	Newsday.com: Shakespeare Play Used to Promote Respect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The script emphasizes the greatness of Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, each considered the greatest writer in his language and who both died on the same date, April 23, 1616 (although not the same day, since Spain and England were using different calendars).
		Miguel, portrayed by 13-year-old Andres Diazgranado, acts out a scene from Cervantes' novel with his grandfather, who has Alzheimer's disease but perks up at the chance to act the role of the self-appointed knight.
		Shakespeare is initially displeased because Miguel's unfamiliarity with the language slows down his learning process, and because England and Spain were longtime enemies and he does not like to hear the Spanish language.
	www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-miguel-meets-the-bard,0,2172277.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines (677 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes
		William Shakespeare, Cervantes' great contemporary, had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlike that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare.
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived an unsettled life of hardship and adventure.
		Cervantes himself had believed in uplifting rhetoric, fought for Spain, and when he returned to Madrid after slavery, he found out that the government ignored his services.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /cervante.htm (1855 words)

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