5/9/2023 0 Comments Miguel cervantes books![]() ![]() He was captured by pirates in 1575, and spent the next five years as a prisoner in Algiers.įor almost all of the rest of his life Cervantes struggled to earn a living from writing and working in various lowly positions for the government. In 1570 he enlisted with the Spanish forces stationed in Italy and fought in the naval battle of Lepanto, in which he was wounded, losing the use of his left hand. He was a student at an arts school in Madrid in 1568, but moved to Rome in 1569. ![]() Virtually nothing is known of his childhood, apart from the fact that his father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, was a surgeon, a poorly paid profession in those days, and that the family were constantly on the move. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcala de Henares, near Madrid, Spain in 1547. ![]()
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