Miguel Cervantes
Miguel Cervantes
Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, two authors at the pinnacle of the cultural rebirth of Europe during the 1500s, ironically died on the same date (this fact is a bit confused by the distinction between the Julian and Gregorian calendar. Indeed they both died on the date of April 23, 1616, but England had not converted to the Gregorian Calendar, so they did not die on the same day, but they did on the same date, as Spain's Julian calendar correlated Cervantes' death to Shakepseare's). Shakespeare even read Cervantes' masterpiece The Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, but it is probable that Cervantes never even heard of Shakespeare, let alone read one of his plays or poems. This distinction between two men of equal literary merit can be seen as an allegory for Miguel Cervantes' entire life: he lived in obscurity, while receiving much praise posthumously.
It took historians until the mid-1800s to discover where Don......
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