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It is generally accepted Miguel de Cervantes was born around 29 September 1547, in Alcalá de Henares. He was the second son of barber-surgeon Rodrigo de Cervantes and his wife, Leonor de Cortinas (c. 1520–1593). [26] Rodrigo came from Córdoba, Andalusia, where his father Juan de Cervantes was an influential lawyer.
Don Diego de Miranda, a learned hidalgo who hosts Quixote and Sancho at his home; Don Lorenzo, his son, an aspiring poet. Altisidora, a young woman in the court of the Duchess, who pretends that she loves Quixote. Doña Rodriguez de Grijalba, a duenna in the court of the Duchess; Tosilos, a lackey sent by the Duchess to fight with Quixote
The Young Beggar is a (circa 1645–1650) genre painting by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.Also known as The Lice-Ridden Boy due to the figure of a young boy delousing himself in the painting, The Young Beggar is the first known depiction of a street urchin by Murillo.
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
The Cervantes Encyclopedia. Cervantes 27.2 (2007): 239-241. Humanities International Complete. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. Maestro, Jesús G. Sobre el diálogo y la “commedia dell’arte en los entremeses de Cervantes. La cueva de Salamanca. Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2003. Web. 25 February 2016.
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The wife of one of the workers who survived the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore says he's lucky to be alive because he can't swim.
It starred Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo (who also starred together as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the 1947 Spanish film version of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote) and the young child star Pablito Calvo (no relation to Juan) as Marcelino.