Biography Of Cervantes

The writer, glory of the Spanish lyrics, famous born on September 29, 1547 in Alcalá de Henares ( Madrid). Fourth son of surgeon Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas . When he was 4 years old he moved with his family to Valladolid, where the court of the king of Spain , Philip II was settled . In 1561 the court was moved to Madrid , where Cervantes Family is also transferred . Little is known of the studies was coursing Michael in his childhood and adolescence, but it seems that we now call were the university . It is known that he attended a Jesuit school but the city is unknown, although it is suspected that it was during his stay in Valladolid. Back in Madrid, seems to have been his teacher Juan López de Hoyos , a prominent writer of the time. With little more than twenty years he went to Rome in the service of Cardinal Acquaviva . Toured Italy, he enlisted in the Spanish Armada in 1571 and participated heroically in the battle of Lepanto, " the greatest chance viewing forever." In the battle of Lepanto , where the decline of the Turkish power in the Mediterranean begins , formed the Christian front : the Spanish navy; the state of the Vatican ; and the state of Venice. There's where Cervantes , as a result of a musket shot to the chest and left arm , lost much of their mobility , so I was called Manco de Lepanto .

The September 26, 1575 , when he returned to Spain , the pirates attacked his ship at the mouth of the Rhone River , he seized and taken to Algiers , where he suffered five years of captivity . Cervantes was released after a Trinitarian friars paid a ransom for him , the September 19, 1580 . Upon his return to Madrid he found his family in ruin. When he was 37 years old he married in Esquivias ( Toledo) to Ca...

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... appeared in 1615 ; therefore from Chapter LIX , she lost no opportunity to ridicule the false Quixote and ensure the authenticity of the real Don Quixote and Sancho . In 1617 the two parts were published together in Barcelona. And since Don Quixote became one of the most published books in the world and , in time , translated into all languages with literary tradition.

Although the true and deserved fame , comes to Miguel de Cervantes for his famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha and other novels less impact , we bring to this site, a choice selection of poems from which most of them are from of his best-known works in prose. With this we try to give also know the dimension of great poet of the Spanish Golden Age , which rightfully belongs , and that in his time he was awarded the nicknames popularly cast of " Phoenix of Wits " and " Prince of Letters Spanish " .