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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.
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.
Octavio Paz was born near Mexico City.His family was a prominent liberal political family in Mexico, with Spanish and indigenous Mexican roots. [1] His grandfather, Ireneo Paz, the family's patriarch, fought in the War of the Reform against conservatives, and then became a staunch supporter of liberal war hero Porfirio Díaz up until just before the 1910 outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
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.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547−1616) — renowned Spanish Renaissance writer during the Spanish Golden Age Wikiquote has quotations related to Miguel de Cervantes . Wikisource has original works by or about:
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