Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. In Esquivias (Province of Toledo), on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (Toledo, Esquivias –, 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel. Provenance: Quaritch (pencil note) – Maggs (receipt dated 1939 to:) – Carlos Alberto Pueyrredon (1887-1963, Argentine politician and historian).Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Woodcut initials and ornaments (browning small repair to I5 with affected text replaced in pen repairs to corner of Ee4 and inner margin of Oo8). PMM 111 Bloom, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, p.

RBH and ABPC record only 3 other copies at auction in the last 30 years. Velpius’s edition, which introduced the text to Northern Europe, is based on Cuedra’s second (with many misprints and other textual infelicities corrected). This edition is the seventh overall-all early editions are rare. It quickly went through numerous editions, translations, and piracies. Don Quixote won immediate fame when first printed in 1605 for its “variety, liveliness, and gibes at the famous.” Its subdued pathos and universal humanity have assured it a place as “one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times” (PMM). Ruiz notes that this edition was the most finely printed of the early versions to date. The first Brussels edition of the novel “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616).

Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra