Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra: 2 books

With regard to Don Quixote, it need hardly be said that its object is satire upon the books of knight-errantry, which were so much used in the time of Cervantes, and especially by the Spanish. He conceived that these books were likely to give his countrymen false ideas of the world; to fill them all,...

Michel de Cervantès (1547-1616) est le fils d'un chirurgien nommé Rodrigo et de Léonor de Cortinas. En 1559, il s'enfuit en Italie suite à un duel au cours duquel il blesse son adversaire. Soldat aux ordre de Don Juan d'Autriche, il participa à la bataille de Lépante, en 1571. Il y perd l'usage...