Excerpt from Great Writers: Cervantes, Scott, Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakespere Cervantes, noble by blood, was born poor. An infancy at Alcala de Henares, boyhood at Valladolid, youth at Madrid; from such early years he emerges into the half lights of biography in the two worlds of arms and let ters. He was certainly the poet of his school, for his mas ter praised and printed the verse of his dear and be loved pupil; and why should we not believe he was that same Miguel de Cervantes, page at court, who for ruf fl ...
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Excerpt from Great Writers: Cervantes, Scott, Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakespere Cervantes, noble by blood, was born poor. An infancy at Alcala de Henares, boyhood at Valladolid, youth at Madrid; from such early years he emerges into the half lights of biography in the two worlds of arms and let ters. He was certainly the poet of his school, for his mas ter praised and printed the verse of his dear and be loved pupil; and why should we not believe he was that same Miguel de Cervantes, page at court, who for ruf fling there in an affair of gallantry was condemned to ten years' exile and to have his right hand cut off, and es caped to hiding? 'tis as easy as deer-stealing. But whether as a cavalier in flight, or as a prot???g??? more peacefully picked up, Cervantes left Madrid at twenty one in the train of the Papal Ambassador, Monsignor Acquaviva, a fortunate Italian youth two years his senior and a patron of art and letters; and, as a gentle man in attendance upon him, travelled to Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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