Chapter X: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

His Family 52
His Birth 53
His Education 54
His first published Verses 54
Goes to Italy 55
Becomes a Soldier 55
Fights at Lepanto 56
And at Tunis 57
Is captured at Sea 57
Is a Slave at Algiers 57
His cruel Captivity 58
His Release 59
Serves in Portugal 61
His Galatea 61
His Marriage 64
His Literary Friends 65
His First Dramas 65
His Trato de Argel 67
His Numantia 70
Character of these Dramas 77

CHAPTER XI.

CERVANTES, CONTINUED.

He goes to Seville 77
His Life there 78
Asks Employment in America 78
Short Poems 79
Tradition from La Mancha 80
He goes to Valladolid 81
First Part of Don Quixote 82
He goes to Madrid 82
Relations with Poets there 82
With Lope de Vega 82
His Novelas 84
His Viage al Parnaso 88
His Adjunta 89
His Eight Comedias 90
His Eight Entremeses 94
Second Part of Don Quixote 97
His Sickness 98
His Death 99

CHAPTER XII.

CERVANTES, CONCLUDED.

His Persiles y Sigismunda 100
His Don Quixote, First Part 103
His Purpose in writing it 104
Passion for Romances of Chivalry 105
He destroys it 107
Character of the First Part 108
Avellaneda’s Second Part 109
Its Character 110
Cervantes’s Satire on it 111
His own Second Part 112
Its Character 113
Don Quixote and Sancho 114
Blemishes in the Don Quixote 116
Its Merits and Fame 118
Claims of Cervantes 119