Miguel de Cervantes: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Born	September 29, 1547? • Alcalá de Henares • Spain
Died	April 22, 1616 • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works	“Don Quixote” • “El coloquio de los perros” • “Exemplary Stories” • “Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional” • “Ocho comedias, y ocho entremeses nuevos” • “Viage del Parnaso”
Movement / Style	Golden Age

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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.

Engraved portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, depicted with wavy hair, a pointed beard, a ruffled collar, and a buttoned doublet, seated with one arm resting forward.

An early edition of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is open to the title page, showing ornate border designs and Spanish text printed in 1605.

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Don Quixote ballet

Bronze statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on horseback stand before a large stone sculpture of Miguel de Cervantes at Plaza de Espana in Madrid, Spain.

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Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote. Engraving from 1843 by E.Mackenzie and published in London by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.

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