Four related Cervantes had so far not been studied, one with an autograph of the author of Don Quixote , and offer new data documents about his life, have been found in archives of Seville and La Puebla de Cazalla (Sevilla) by the researcher José Cabello Nunez.
Archivist of La Puebla de Cazalla, José Cabello explained to Efe who found the first of these manuscripts in the municipal archive of this Seville town, which is an agreement between the City and the Miguel de Cervantes himself so that he could make the requisition of wheat and barley as commissioner of the Royal Treasury .
This first paper, according to the researcher, is March 1593, when, however, the biographers of Cervantes as located in the city of Seville without exercising any activity.
The manuscript also mentions that Cervantes works for the supplier of the Indian fleet Cristobal de Barros, the name, as hair does not appear in the biographies of the writer.
By mentioning the manuscript Indies Fleet , Hair resorted to the Archivo de Indias in Seville, where he found two documents that had not been studied, one that places in Puebla de Cervantes Cazalla between February and April 1593 as commissioner of supplies and the other records that the salary of Cervantes was delivered to a woman named Magdalena Enriquez.
Finally, Cabello found on the File Protocols Sevilla power of attorney by which Cervantes indeed empowered Magdalena Enriquez to collect their fees as commissioner of supplies, which is the document that is signed by the writer.
For the researcher, the latter is finding more value from the biographical point of view, since it has ensured that biographers of Cervantes quote Magdalena Enriquez, who must have had a trust relationship with the writer, to the extent that the authorization to collect their salary.
According to Cabello, that time women were not allowed to perform transactions without the consent of a man, unless they were widows, which has considered Magdalena Enriquez a decent figure study to clarify its relationship with Cervantes.
Another line of research that should open these findings, as hair is about services provided by Cervantes to the Crown, because until now there was no record of his work orders Cristobal de Barros.
The researcher explained that Cristobal de Barros and Peralta, then overall supplier in the House of Trade in Seville to the galleons of the Armada fleet and the Carrera de las Indias, is regarded as the best builder of warships of Philip II and architect of the technical organization of the winning Spanish fleet at Lepanto and the Armada.
Barros also held the position of Superintendent of Factories , Forestry and Plantations of the Cantabrian coastline and largest manufacturer after being appointed, went to Seville in 1592 as a general provider Escort Fleet of the Indies, and remained in the city until his death in 1596.
José Cabello plans to publish an article explaining these findings in a volume under the title of Wheat and oil for the Navy, Commissioner Miguel de Cervantes in the Kingdom of Seville , gather input from archivists and researchers from the province on the work as commissioner of supplies of Cervantes in La Puebla de Cazalla, Marchena, Osuna, Ecija, Sevilla and Carmona, where another autograph Cervantes found a century ago remains.
Cervantes came to Sevilla when the city was the economic capital of an empire and one of the most important and populated cities in Europe, and Port de Indias, while the people living in poor conditions, as the writer describes in some of his novels, and was also in jail in Seville where he served time for irregularities in their tax collection tasks.
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