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Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
Who Was Miguel de Cervantes?
Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto.
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Captured by the Turks in 1575, Cervantes spent five years in prison. before he was ransomed and returned home. After less successful earlier efforts, Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605.
He died in 1616.
Early Life
The fourth of seven children, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially for almost his entire life. His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon—a lowly trade at the time—and the family moved around often in Cervantes youth as his father searched for better prospects.
Whatever his family's financial conditions, Cervantes was an avid reader as a child—a skill he was reportedly taught by a relative.
But whether he had much in the way of formal education has been a subject of debate among sc