BIOGRAPHY: MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Greetings to all the Steemitnians Here is a brief biography of a character who has become known in this medium, but who knows who he really was. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born in the city of Alcalá de Henares, belonging to the community of Madrid on September 29, 1547, is considered the most important figure in Spanish literature, known for writing one of the most famous novels of all time. surely heard or read at some point "The ingenious Hidalgo of Don Quixote de la Mancha", a modern novel that is worthwhile and many other books of universal literature, besides being the most published and converted book in history, barely surpassed by the Bible, has been given the nickname of Prince of Ingenios.

NOVELS

-The Galatea (1585)

-The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)

• Sample copies (1613)

-The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha (1615)

-The works of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617)

-Cervantes was portrayed in his time by the painter Juan de Jáuregui. However, no existing portrait can be identified with that of Jáuregui, although after the date of his death there can be many portraits of the writer, none of which is authentic. He died in Madrid at the age of 68 years of diabetes, in the well-known Casa de Cervantes, located on the corner of Calle del León and Calle Francos, in the aforementioned neighborhood of Las Letras or the Musas neighborhood, in the surrounding area. of the famous Madrid of the Austrias. Cervantes wished to be buried in the church of the Convent of the Discalced Trinitaries, in the same neighborhood, because when he was taken prisoner in Algiers, the congregation of the Trinitarians helped, they made intermediaries and collected funds so that he and his brother Rodrigo were released.