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Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá, near Madrid, on 29th September in 1547. ( Miss Vivi)
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Cervantes was baptized in Alcala de Henares on October 9th,1547, at the parish church of Santa Maria la Mayor.
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On this day in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes is baptized in Alcala de Heraves, Spain, a university town near Madrid. Cervantes, the fouth son of a deaf apothecary,studied with Madrid humanist Juan Lopez before traveling to Rome, where he worked for a future cardinal in the late 1560s.
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In 1569,Cervantes moved to Ital, where he served as a valet to Guilio Acquaviva,a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year.
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In 1570 Cervantes joined the Spanish forces at Naples, Italy. As a soldier he witnessed the naval victory at the Gulf of Lepanto in Greece in 1571. He was wounded twice in the chest and once in the left hand. Cervantes often mentioned this victory in his works. He saw battle action from 1572 through 1574.
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Ater getting captured by pirates a couple months ago, Cervantes left the army to do better things
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In Esquivias, Toledo, on 12th December in 1584, he married a much younger lady called Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (born Esquivias – d. 31 October 1626), the daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios.
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In 1585, Cervantes published a pastoral novel named La Galatea.
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Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age
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In 1605 Cervante publish the first part of Don Quixote
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His most ambitious work in verse was Parnaso trip.
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This is the second part of the famous book of Don Quixote made by Miguel de Cervantes
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In 1615 Cervantes published the second part of Don Quixote
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He died on April 22nd in 1616, in Madrid. He was buried on the grounds of a convent there, in an unmarked grave.
