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Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)

Author of Don Quixote

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In 1571, Miguel de Cervantes fought in the Battle of Lepanto, where he was wounded.  After his recovery and further military duty, he was captured during his voyage home by Barbary pirates; he was enslaved for five years in Algiers, until a ransom was paid for his release.  Back in Spain, he was to serve terms of imprisonment for financial fraud.  All these experiences made deep impressions in Cervantes's imagination, and themes of freedom and captivity later appeared in his writing.  The idea for his most influential and famous work, Don Quixote, one of the founding works of Western literature, is said to have come to him in prison.
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