Four are unpublished documents on the life of Cervantes – Diario de Sevilla

Four related Cervantes so far not been studied, one with an autograph of the author of Quixote , and provide new data on life documents have been found files Sevilla and La Puebla de Cazalla Hair investigator José Núñez.

Archivist of La Puebla de Cazalla, Joseph Hair explained that he found the first of these manuscripts in the municipal archive of this Seville town, which is an agreement between the City and self Miguel de Cervantes so that it could make the requisition of wheat and barley as commissioner of the Royal Treasury. That first document, 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 supplier of the Indian fleet Cristobal de Barros , a name which, as hair does not appear in the biographies of the writer. Mentioning the manuscript Indies Fleet, Hair resorted to 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 another that records that Cervantes’s salary was given 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 the biographers of Cervantes quote Magdalena Enriquez , who had to have a trust relationship with the writer, to the extent that the authorization to collect their salary. According to Hair, at that time women were not allowed to perform transactions without the consent of a man, unless they were widows, which has considered Magdalena Enriquez decent figure studio 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 their work to 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 Navy and Fleet Race of India, is considered 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 Parks, Forestry and Plantations of the Cantabrian Coast and after being appointed largest manufacturer, 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 publish an article explaining these findings in a volume, entitled of “Wheat and oil for the Navy, Commissioner Miguel de Cervantes in the Kingdom of Seville”, will bring together contributions from archivists and researchers from the province on the work as commissioner of supplies of Cervantes in La Puebla de Cazalla, Marchena, Osuna, Ecija , Seville and Carmona, where another autograph Cervantes found a century ago remains.

Cervantes went to Seville when the city was economic capital of an empire and one of the largest populated cities of Europe, and Port de Indias, although the people living in harsh conditions, such as the writer describes in some of his novels, and was also in the Sevilla where he served jail sentence for irregularities in their tax collection tasks.