Mischievous, playful, playful, humorous and unpredictable “writer defines Margit Frenk philologist Mexican poet, novelist and playwright Spanish Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), considered the greatest figure in Spanish literature
After decades of study thoroughly the teacher whose work was also a soldier and tax collector, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, written in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, the specialist of German origin says that “he is called ‘rare inventor’ “.
“Cervantes was a very different writer from others and had a clear awareness of this difference and independence; that is, he did not need others to write, nor scholarship, nor knowledge. He had a great awareness of their ability to invent. It is a very complicated voice. Is several people at once, “he said.
This view of the creator of the first modern novel, whose next April 23 the 400th death anniversary is commemorated ratifies the four centuries of immortality of his work did not receive recognition in life.
The evolution in the world for 68 years the so-called Prince of wits is rather sad and surrounded by misery and injustice. A destination that, however, overcame the author of La Galatea “(1585).
“Within two years, Miguel began to learn of necessity, because his father went to jail for debts and assets were seized him. Thereafter poverty accompanied him “Hector Anaya says.
The author of the 400-year calendar, which this year is dedicated to Cervantes and William Shakespeare (1564-1616), says that the father of Spanish suffered various injustices: “He was imprisoned, subjected captive in Algiers prevented him four times New travel to Spain and to his contemporaries minimized the importance of his creations.
“Neither the services rendered to the Spanish Crown, nor the fact of being disabled with the left hand, it sought government support or pension. He died in poverty and do not even know where he was buried, and his grave was destroyed “.
The uncertainty begins with the birth of the author of Exemplary Novels (1613), as there is no certainty the exact day. It is thought that was a September 29, date of the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, given the tradition of receiving the name of the saints.
What we do know, for the record that exists is the son of Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas was baptized on October 9, 1547 in the parish of Santa Maria Maggiore in Alcala de Henares.
There are also no precise data on the first studies of Cervantes that his biographers think, they did not become academics. He attended in Madrid the study of the Villa. There, the professor of grammar Juan Lopez de Hoyos published in 1569 a book about the illness and death of Queen Elizabeth of Valois, the third wife of Philip II, and included in it two poems of his disciple. These are the first literary author of Parnassus (1614), his only extensive narrative poem.
But their plight escalated in 1569, when he was apprehended by hurt in a duel to Antonio Sigura, master builder, as reads an order of Felipe II that has been preserved.
This could be what caused him to go to Italy. Here he occupied the place of a soldier in the company of Captain Diego de Urbina. And the October 7, 1571 he participated in the Battle of Lepanto, where he lost the movement of his left hand, when a piece of lead will severed a nerve. Hence the nickname of Manco de Lepanto. He also took part in the naval expeditions of Navarino, Corfu, Bizerte, Tunisia.
One of the most unpleasant experiences of Don Miguel was when he was imprisoned along with his brother Rodrigo for five years in Algiers, captured in 1575 by a Turkish flotilla and condemned to slavery. After four attempts to escape, he was released to pay the amount demanded by the kidnappers.
Upon returning to Spain he tried unsuccessfully to rebuild their lives and pay the debts he had acquired his family to rescue him. He found only low-paying jobs. “Little is known about the loves of Cervantes. Hardly it is known that Ana de Villafranca, married woman, had a daughter, Isabel de Saavedra. And, years later (1584), married Catalina de Salazar, against the advice of her family, “said Anaya.
Towards the end of his life, he lived in Sevilla and Valladolid, where, fortunately, took refuge in literature. He died in Madrid of diabetes at age 68.
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