September 29, 2006
Miguel de Cervantes
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Cervantes was a Spanish author best known for Don Quixote de la Mancha, his novel about an aging knight. A superb burlesque of the popular romances of chivalry, the work was an enormous success and has had an indelible effect on the development of the European novel. Cervantes himself led an eventful life; he was imprisoned several times, captured by pirates, and sold as a slave. What statesman is said to have learned Spanish so that he could read Don Quixote in the original?
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