Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Analysis

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish Literary equivalent of Shakespeare, was a novelist, a poet, and a playwright, but before he was a writer at all, he was the fourth child of father Rodrigo de Cervantes, a barber-surgeon (a common occupation at the time that involved, as the name suggests, the tasks of both a barber and a medical surgeon), and mother Leonor de Cervantes. Although uncertain, his birthdate is said to be September 29th, the day of St. Miguel, due to both his birth name and his family's Roman Catholic origins, as proven with his baptization in October 9th of that same year.Because of the time, information on anyone, specifically Cervantes in this case, was scarce, and most information that can be found is found through notarial

They failed both commercially and financially. His second attempt, a lot more successful, came in the form of La Galatea, a catholic romance novel published in 1585. Soon after the birth of his illegitimate daughter, Isabel, and the marriage to Catalina de Salazar, he could no longer support himself through his writings and sought employment elsewhere. First as a commissary with a armada heading to war with England, and second, after being excommunicated three times from his last job, as a tax collector, for which he was imprisoned for mismanagement of accounts.Just when it would seem that the world had given Cervantes its final gift of fortune, he wrote his 1605 magnum opus, a novel known for its longevity and for being one of the highest selling books of all time behind the Bible as well as a staple of classic world literature - Don Quixote. The novel, being translated to English and French, was sold all over Europe and The New World, garnering him international success and a warm welcome into the academic