Cervantes
Mi·guel de [mi-geldey; Spanish mee-gelde], /mɪˈgɛl deɪ; Spanish miˈgɛl dɛ/, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547–1616, Spanish novelist and short-story writer.
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Cervantes said she feels Alvarez is a genuine person who has his intentions in the right place.
Voices of the Voters: Chula Vista Mayor’s Race Top of Mind | Andrea Lopez-Villafaña | June 7, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoA modern adaptation of Cervantes’s beloved epic, Octavio Solis’s play — directed by Lisa Portes — transfers the story to a Texas border town and sets it to the Tejano music of the region.
After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big | Peter Marks | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostThus his love of escapist, desperately lighthearted writers like Laurence Sterne and Miguel de Cervantes.
The Forgotten Russian: The Genius of Nikolai Leskov | Benjamin Lytal | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn January, Bernie Cervantes Villegas, 36, and Roscoe Cambridge, 29, were killed in separate incidents.
Amid Days of Riots, Residents Wonder If Anaheim is Most Dangerous Place on Earth | Maria Elena Fernandez | July 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was Quixotic, and two hundred years ago could scarcely have escaped the pen of some French Cervantes.
This is Cervantes's description of the national stage in the time of his immediate predecessor, Lope de Rueda.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetIt was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare | Leo TolstoyYet Miguel Cervantes, the author of this book which is so amusing, had dragged on the most wretched and melancholy existence.
Library Notes | A. P. RussellMichael Cervantes composed the best and most agreeable book in the Spanish language, during his captivity in Barbary.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
British Dictionary definitions for Cervantes
/ (səˈvæntiːz, Spanish θɛrˈβantes) /
Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
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