![]() ![]() In 1575 he set out with his brother Rodrigo on the galley El Sol for Spain. After recuperation in Messina, Sicily, he continued his military career. Cervantes was extremely proud of his role in the famous victory and of the nickname he earned, el manco de Lepanto (the cripple of Lepanto). He took part in the sea battle at Lepanto (1571), during which he received a wound that permanently maimed his left hand. In the same year Cervantes joined a Spanish regiment in Naples. ![]() After studying in Madrid (1568-69), where his teacher was the humanist Juan López de Hoyos, he went to Rome in the service of Guilio Acquavita, who became a cardinal in 1570. ![]() Much of his childhood Cervantes spent moving from town to town while his father sought work. Rodrigo de Cervantes, his father, was an apothecary-surgeon. His mother was Leonor de Cortinas she gave birth to seven children, Cervantes was the fourth. He was born in Alcalá de Henares, a small town near Madrid, into a family of the minor nobility. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived an unsettled life of hardship and adventure. In spite of his fame, Cervantes remained a poor man. William Shakespeare, Cervantes' great contemporary, had evidently read Don Quixote, but it is most unlike that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. Although Cervantes' reputation rests almost entirely on his portrait of the knight of La Mancha, El ingenioso hidalgo, his literary production was considerable. Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature. ![]()
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