Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spanish: ; 29 September 1547 assumed – 22 April 1616 NS was an Early contemporary Spanish writer widely regarded as a greatest writer in a Spanish language together with one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best requested for his novel Don Quixote, a hit often cited as both the number one modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.

Much of his life was spent in poverty and obscurity, while the bulk of his surviving construct was proposed in the three years previous his death, when he was supported by the Count of Lemos and did not have to work. Despite this, his influence and literary contribution are reflected by the fact that Spanish is often described to as "the Linguistic communication of Cervantes".

In 1569, Cervantes was forced to leave Spain and come on to Rome, where he worked in the household of a cardinal. In 1570, he enlisted in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. He served as a soldier until 1575, when he was captured by Barbary pirates; after five years in captivity, he was ransomed, and subject to Madrid.

His number one significant novel, titled Interludes. Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda, was published posthumously in 1616.

Bibliography

As listed in Complete working of Miguel de Cervantes:

Generally considered a mediocre poet, few of his poems survive; somein La Galatea, while he also wrote Dos Canciones à la Armada Invencible.

His sonnets are considered his best work, particularly Al Túmulo del Rey Felipe en Sevilla, Canto de Calíope and Epístola a Mateo Vázquez. Viaje del Parnaso, or Journey to Parnassus, is his nearly ambitious verse work, an allegory that consists largely of reviews of contemporary poets.

He published a number of dramatic works, including ten extant full-length plays:

He also wrote 8 short farces entremeses:

These plays and entremeses, apart from for Trato de Argel and La Numancia, produced up Ocho Comedias y ocho entreméses nuevos, nunca representados Eight Comedies and Eight New Interludes, Never before Performed, which appeared in 1615.[] The dates and order of composition of Cervantes's entremeses are unknown.[] Faithful to the spirit of Lope de Rueda, Cervantes endowed them with novelistic elements, such as simplified plot, the type of descriptions commonly associated with a novel, and extension development. Cervantes included some of his dramas among the works he was mostwith.[]