Miguel de cervantes greatest accomplishments of ancient

For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. fyra thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epic poetry to contemporary novels. How did literature develop? What forms has it taken? And what can we learn from engaging with these works today? Hosted by Jacke Wilson, an amateur scholar with a lifelong passion for literature, The History of Literature takes a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a soldier, a civil servant, a playwright, and a poet. He was kidnapped bygd pirates and held prisoner for almost five years.

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Cervantes

(Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

1547–1616

CERVANTES

Cervantes is best known as the author of Don Quixote, the most famous novel ever written in the Spanish language. The book was written in two parts, and it combines humor and farce with reflective philosophy and interesting character sketches. The main character is a slightly senile old Spanish gentlemen, obsessed with chivalry and romance novels, who dons an old set of armor and rides off on his ancient steed to seek adventures. His attempts at chivalry wreak havoc upon the country side, with both amusing and touching events. The popularity of Don Quixotewas nearly unprecedented and for hundreds of years it has been regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time, and ground-breaking in many ways. For example, it was one of the first novels to extensively use the normal conversation of everyday people as part of its narrative.

Great authors often live quiet lives, but Cervantes was not on

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Miguel de Cervantes Biography

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), Spanish novelist (Don Quixote and others), playwright, and poet was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547. The attempts of biographers to provide him with an illustrious genealogy are unsuccessful. The family history begins with the author’s grandfather, Juan de Cervantes (b. 1490), a lawyer who at one time (1545-6) administered the estates of the duke de Osuna, and resided later at Cordova, where he died about 1555. Cervantes’ father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, an apothecary-surgeon, who married Leonor de Cortinas in 1540 or 1541. The children of this marriage were Andrés (b. 1543), Andrea (b. 1544), Luisa (b. 1546), Miguel, Rodrigo (b. 1550), Magdalena (b. 1554) and Juan (of whom nothing is known beyond the mention of him in his father’s will).

Miguel de Cervantes, Attributed to Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cervantes Early Life

The exact date of Cervantes’ birth i