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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) ebbe un’esistenza lunga e travagliata. Lasciata la natia Spagna per fuggire in Italia, si dedicò alla carriera militare. Durante una navigazione al largo di Napoli fu assalito dai corsari e venduto in Algeria come schiavo. Dopo numerosi tentativi di fuga falliti, fu riscattato solo anni dopo e poté finalmente fare ritorno in Spagna. Qui si sposò e visse a Siviglia fino al 1600, sperimentando diversi impieghi tra cui quello di commissario per l’approvvigionamento dell’Invincible Armada. Fu diverse volte in carcere e infine coinvolto e indagato per l’assassinio di un cavaliere. Trascorse gli ultimi anni della sua vita alla corte di Filippo III, a Madrid. Di Cervantes la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Novelle esemplari e il suo capolavoro Don Chisciotte della Mancha.
The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra - Simone Vannini, 2015 -
With regard to Don Quixote, it need hardly be said that its object is satire upon the books of knight-errantry, which were so much used in the time of Cervantes, and especially by the Spanish. He conceived that these books were likely to give his countrymen false ideas of the world; to fill them all, but especially the young, with fanciful notions of life, and so make them unfit to meet its real difficulties and hardships. In order to exhibit the absurdity of such works (it must be remembered too, that the more famous books of knighthood had given rise to a host of spurious imitations, with all their faults and none of their beauties), the author of Don Quixote represents a worthy gentleman with his head turned by such reading, and then sallying forth and endeavouring to act in this plain matter-of-fact world (where there are windmills, and not giants—inns, and not castles—good honest hosts and hostesses, and not lords and ladies—chambermaids, and not peerless beauties—estates to be got by hard labour, and not islands to be given away to one's dependants as if by enchantment), endeavouring to act, we say, as if all that was said in Amadis de Gaul, and Palmerin of England, and Olivante de Laura, were really true.