Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra eBooks
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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.
Don QuixoteIllustrated by Gustave Doré. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra - Wisehouse Classics, 2019 -
"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel" and is sometimes considered the best literary work ever written. The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.