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What was Miguel de Cervantes’s first published poem about?

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Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma. — Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes, engraving by E. Mackenzie after Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma; from The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1863).

Miguel de Cervantes’s first published poem was written on the death of Elizabeth of Valois, the young queen of Philip II.1