Don Quijote De La Mancha

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Cervantes, Miguel

Published: 1605
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Source: http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes

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Acerca Cervantes:
Don Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra ( September 29, 1547 – April 23,
1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Cervantes was one of
the most important and influential persons in literature and theleading
figure associated with the cultural fluorescence of sixteenth century Spain (the Siglo de Oro). His novel, Don Quixote, is considered as a founding classic of Western literature and regularly figures among the best
novels ever written; it has been translated into more than sixty-five languages, while editions continue regularly to be printed, and critical discussion of the work has unabatedlypersisted since the 18th century. He
has been dubbed el Príncipe de los Ingenios (the Prince of Wits). Cervantes, born in Alcalá de Henares, was the fourth of seven children in a family whose origins may have been of the minor gentry. The family moved from town to town, and little is known of Cervantes's early years.
Cervantes made his literary début in 1568. By 1570 he had enlisted as asoldier in a Spanish infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by barbary pirates on his return home.
He was ransomed by his parents and the Trinitarians and returned to his
family in Madrid. In 1585, Cervantes published a pastoral novel, La Galatea. Because of financial problems, Cervantes worked as a purveyor for
the Spanish Armada, and later as a taxcollector. In 1597 discrepancies in
his accounts of three years previous landed him in the Crown Jail of Seville. In 1605 he was in Valladolid, just when the immediate success of
the first part of his Don Quixote, published in Madrid, signaled his return to the literary world. In 1607, he settled in Madrid, where he lived
and worked until his death. During the last nine years of his life, Cervantessolidified his reputation as a writer; he published the Exemplary Novels (Novelas ejemplares) in 1613, the Journey to Parnassus (Viaje del
Parnaso) in 1614, and in 1615, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and
the second part of Don Quixote. Carlos Fuentes noted that, "Cervantes
leaves open the pages of a book where the reader knows himself to be
written. " Source: Wikipedia
Also available onFeedbooks for Cervantes:
• Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha (1615)
• Novelas ejemplares (1613)
• La Galatea (1585)
• Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617)
• Viaje del Parnaso (1614)

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TASA
Yo,Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor,
de los que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto
por los señores dél un libro intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, tasaron cada pliego
del dicho libro a tres maravedís y medio; el cual tiene ochenta y tres pliegos, que al dicho precio monta el dicholibro docientos y noventa maravedís y medio, en que se ha de vender en papel; y dieron licencia para
que a este precio se pueda vender, y mandaron que esta tasa se ponga al
principio del dicho libro, y no se pueda vender sin ella. Y, para que dello
conste, di la presente en Valladolid, a veinte días del mes de deciembre
de mil y seiscientos y cuatro años.
Juan Gallo de Andrada.

TESTIMONIO DELAS ERRATAS
Este libro no tiene cosa digna que no corresponda a su original; en testimonio de lo haber correcto, di esta fee. En el Colegio de la Madre de
Dios de los Teólogos de la Universidad de Alcalá, en primero de diciembre de 1604 años.
El licenciado Francisco Murcia de la Llana.

EL REY
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