Los Mejores Relatos De Los Siglos De Oro / The Best Tales From the Golden Era

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo

The opinions and viewpoints of men and women from the 16th and 17th century are captured in these stories told by authors like Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco Quevedo and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Description in
¿Cómo retratan la realidad los hombres y mujeres de los siglos XVI y XVII? ¿Cuáles son sus preferencias y gustos artísticos? ¿ De qué manera hacen frente al malestar reinante y al desasosiego individual en una época de transformaciones? Esta antología responde a esto y a más, con unos brillantes testos de los autores más representativos del período conocido en el ámbito literario como los Siglos de Oro.

245 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

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. 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. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.

He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
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. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice (1597 and 1602) for irregularities in his accounts. Between 1596 and 1600, he lived primarily in Seville. In 1606, Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Cervantes died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
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