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	Miguel de Cervantes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miguel de Cervantes was born at Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
		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.
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	Miguel de Cervantes
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet, was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547.
		That same day Cervantes, his natural daughter (Isabel de Saavedra), his sister Andrea and her daughter were lodged in jail on suspicion of being indirectly concerned in Ezpeleta's death; one of the witnesses made damaging charges against Cervantes' daughter, but no substantial evidence was produced, and the prisoners were released.
		Isabel de Saavedra was stated to be a spinster when arrested at Valladolid in June 1605; the settlement of her marriage with Luis de Molina in 1608 describes her as the widow of Diego Sanz, as the mother of a daughter eight months old, and as owning house-property of some value.
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	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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)

	Jewels of Spain : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE (1547-1616), Spanish writer was born at Alcalá de Henares in the province of Madrid.
		Cervantes fought with courage at Lepanto (Oct. 7, 1571), although he was ill and had a high fever, and one of the two wounds he received left his arm and hand crippled and useless.
		In 1584, at the age of thirty-seven, Cervantes was married in Esquivias, in the province of Toledo, to a 19-year-old girl, Catalina de Palacios.
	www.gospain.org /jewels/cervante.htm (3597 words)

	Literature of the Western World, Vol. I and Vol. II, 5/e Chapter 3 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547, the fourth of seven children of an impoverished physician.
		Cervantes was twice imprisoned for shortages in his accounts, owing to a combination of his superior’s own chaotic records, an untimely bank failure, and doubtless his own inadequacies as a bookkeeper.
		Cervantes’ book was an immediate best-seller; it went through a number of printings the first year and was very promptly translated into French, Italian, and other European languages.
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	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 Quixote Virtual Museum. Biography of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		Cervantes was the fourth of the seven children born to Doña Leonor de Cortinas and Don Rodrigo de Cervantes, an itinerant surgeon who struggled to maintain his practice and his family by travelling throughout Spain.
		The marriage obliged Cervantes to look for a job and in 1588 he secured a position as a government official in the south of Spain, requisitioning wheat and olive oil for the campaign of the Invincible Armada.
		The Franciscans buried don Miguel de Cervantes, by then called “the prince of the ingenious”, in Madrid, April 23, 1616, the same day another literary giant, William Shakespeare, was put to rest in England.
	www.donquijote.org /vmuseum/biography-cervantes (971 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes - Biography and Works
		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)

	ARTSEDGE: Don Quixote: Cervantes' Spain: About Cervantes
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547.
		Cervantes lived during a historical period when Spain was experiencing its Golden Age and the Reformation was turning Europe into a battleground in which the Turks aggressively fought the Catholic Spaniards for power.
		Cervantes was hired as Royal Commissioner of Supplies in 1587 to collect food for the Invincible Armada, beginning his life as a traveling businessman.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/donq/spain/about_cerv.html (662 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.
		Cervantes next turned his attention to the drama, hoping to derive an income from that source, but the plays which he composed failed to achieve their purpose.
		The countless novels of knightly daring which had followed in the wake of the very worthy "Amadis de Gaula" had obtained an unwonted vogue and had created an air of false idealism which tended to leave Spain unduly in the rear of advancing civilization, for, cherishing them, she clung too closely to the medieval past.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
		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)

	CERVANTES
		Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and settled in this capital.
		Then he fought a duel with Antonio de Sigura and wounded his opponent, which he should have paid for by leaving Spain for ten years and losing his right hand, but he ran away.
		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)

	Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547, Alcalá de Henares-1616, Ma-drid), novelist, dramatist, and poet
		Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547, Alcalá de Henares-1616, Ma-drid), novelist, dramatist, and poet
		Cervantes was one of seven children in what may well have been a converso family (i.e., of Jewish blood) of very modest means; his father was a practical surgeon.
		In 1575 Cervantes was returning to Spain when his ship was captured by Turkish pirates; for the next five years he was held as a slave for ransom in Algiers.
	webby.cc.denison.edu /~garcia/Cervantes.html (1116 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Miguel de Cervantes (1547) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
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	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - World's Greatest Classic Books
		Miguel de Cervantes was born the fourth son to Leonor de Cortinas and Rodrigo de Cervantes.
		Cervantes' first poems in appreciation of Spain's Queen Elizabeth of Valois in 1568 were published while he was still a student.
		Cervantes was captured by pirates in 1575 and taken to Algeria as a slave where after several unsuccessful escape attempts he was ransomed by Trinitarian friar Juan Gil in 1580.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/quickstep/1103/cervantes_miguel.htm (621 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)

	Cervantes Project 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547 and died in Madrid in 1616.
		It appears that Cervantes studied with the Jesuits in Córdoba or Seville and perhaps in Salamanca.
		Cervantes makes a distinction between poetic truth and historical truth and attempts, through the use of parody, to set their boundaries.
	www.csdl.tamu.edu /cervantes/english/ctxt/cec/bibo.html (945 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE [Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de], 1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b.
		After many attempted escapes, he was ransomed in 1580, at a cost that brought financial ruin to himself and to his family.
		As a government purchasing agent in Seville (1588-97), Cervantes proved less than successful; his unbusinesslike methods resulted in deficits, and he was imprisoned several times.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Cervante&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (574 words)

	AllRefer.com - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : Works (Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biographies
		A spurious Part II was published in 1614, probably spurring Cervantes to complete the work.
		In later years Cervantes wrote other works of fiction, including Novelas ejemplares (1613), 12 original tales of piracy, Gypsies, and human passions, drawn from his own experience and molded by his mature craftsmanship.
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	Cervantes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
		Cervantes de Leon, a character in the Soul Calibur series of fighting games
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cervantes (127 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
		Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness: A Study of ‘El casamiento engañoso’ and ‘El coloquio de los perros’.
		‘Cervantes as Moralist and Trickster: the Critique of Picaresque Autobiography in “El casamiento engañoso” and “El coloquio de los perros”’, in Essays on Hispanic Themes in Honour of Edward C. Riley, ed.
		In the sex-war as Cervantes portrays it men are manipulated and controlled by women quite as much as women by men.
	www.mml.cam.ac.uk /spanish/sp2/cervantes.html (480 words)

	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra @ Catharton Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
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	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.
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Cervantes, Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His masterpiece Don Quixote de la Mancha (in full El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha) was published in 1605.
		A spurious second part of Don Quixote prompted Cervantes to bring out his own second part in 1615, often considered superior to the first in construction and characterization.
		Cervantes entered the army in Italy, and was...
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	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Actually if you were to know of only one Spanish novelist (which would be a shame), you probably could not pick a more interesting individual than Cervantes.
		Cervantes was born in 1547 in the town of Alcalá de Henares.
		He became a soldier in Italy in 1570 and lost the use of his left hand in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
	www.ctspanish.com /literature/cervantes2.htm (223 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Cervantes, Miguel
		Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was educated in various Jesuit colleges, and under the humanist schoolmaster Juan Lopez de Hoyos.
		In its time Don Quixote was such a hit that Cervantes wrote a second part, published 10 years later.
		Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has printed one million copies of Don Quixote to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Cervantes' novel, on the basis that Venezuelans should all read the book in order "feed ourselves with that spirit who went out to undo injustices in the world".
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,1002950,00.html (861 words)

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