What events shaped miguel de cervantes life?

Question

Miguel de cervantes was a spanish novelist, who wrote don quijote

Answer 1

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What events?
Many. He traveled around Italy, joined the Spanish army and fought in a battle. He was a prisoner in Algiers for five years... and again spent time in prison in Spanish at least a couple of times....
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Answer 2

Cervantes spent five years as a slave until his family could raise enough money to pay his ransom. Cervantes was released in 1580, and after the return to Madrid he held several temporary administrative posts Cervantes started his literary career in Andalusia in 1580. His first major work was the Galatea (1588), a pastoral romance. It received little contemporary notice and Cervantes never wrote the continuation of it, which he repeatedly promised. In his play El Trato De Argel, printed in 1784, he dealt with the life of Christian slaves in Algiers. Aside from his plays, his most ambitious work in verse was Viaje Del Parnaso (1614).

Tradition maintains, that he wrote Don Quixote in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha. Cervantes' idea was to give a picture of real life and manners and to express himself in clear language.

Answer 3

Family and Early Life
Cervantes was born at Alcalá de Henares, a Spanish city about 20 miles from Madrid, probably on September 29 (the feast day of St. Michael) 1547. He was baptized on October 9.[1] The first known member of the Cervantes family was Miguel's great-grandfather Ruy (Rodrigo) Diaz de Cervantes, a prosperous draper who was born most probably in the 1430s. Contemporary scholars believe that he was of Jewish converso descent. He married a Catalina de Cabrera about whom nothing at all is known. Their son, Miguel's grandfather Juan studied law at University of Salamanca, for most of his life he served as a minor magistrate, ended his career as a specialist in fiscal low for the Inquisition and was a well-to-do man. He married Leonor Frenandez de Torreblanka from a prominent Jewish converso family; she was probably Juan's cousin. She was a daughter of Cordoban physician. Miguel's father Ruy (Rodrigo) was a barber-surgeon who set bones, performed bloodlettings, and attended lesser medical needs. He presented himself as a nobleman and liked to act as a gentleman, which was not easy because of his low income.[2] Cervantes's mother seems to have been a descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity.[3] Little is known of Cervantes' early years and education, but it seems that he spent much of his childhood moving from town to town with his family. While some of his biographers argue that he studied at the University of Salamanca, there is no solid evidence for supposing that he did so.[c] There has been speculation also that Cervantes studied with the Jesuits in Córdoba or Sevilla.[4] All that we know positively about his education is that humanist Juan López de Hoyos called him his "dear and beloved pupil." This was in a little collection of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II of Spain, published by Lopez de Hoyos in 1569, to which Cervantes contributed four pieces, including an elegy, and an epitaph in the form of a sonnet.[5] That same year he left Spain for Italy;[6] it seems that for a time he served as chamberlain in the household of Cardinal Giulio Acquaviva in Rome.

Cervantes' historical importance and influence
Cervantes' novel Don Quixote has had a tremendous influence on the development of prose fiction; it has been translated into all modern languages and has appeared in 700 editions. The first translation in English, and also in any language, was made by Thomas Shelton in 1608, but not published until 1612. Shakespeare had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. Don Quixote has been the subject of a variety of works in other fields of art, including operas by the Italian composer Giovanni Paisiello, the French Jules Massenet, and the Spanish Manuel de Falla; a tone poem by the German composer Richard Strauss; a German film (1933) directed by G. W. Pabst and a Soviet film (1957) directed by Grigori Kozintzev; a ballet (1965) by George Balanchine; and an American musical, Man of La Mancha (1965), by Mitch Leigh.

Its influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, and Dostoyevsky, and in the works of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges.The theme also inspired the 19th-century French artists Honoré Daumier and Gustave Doré.