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LA REUNIÓN DE
FORT LAUDERDALE 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE 2005 REUNION - PAGE 10
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Literary
pursuits
Main article: Don
Quixote
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.
In 1585, Cervantes published his first major work, La
Galatea, a pastoral romance, at the same time that some of his plays, now
lost – except for El Trato de Argel (wherein he dealt with the
life of Christian slaves in Algiers) and El Cerco de Numancia –
were playing on the stages of Madrid. La Galatea received little
contemporary notice; and Cervantes never wrote the continuation for it, which he
repeatedly promised to do. Cervantes next turned his attention to drama, hoping
to derive an income from that source, but the plays which he composed failed to
achieve their purpose. Aside from his plays, his most ambitious work in verse
was Viaje del Parnaso (1614) – an allegory which consisted largely
of a rather tedious though good-natured review of contemporary poets. Cervantes
himself realized that he was deficient in poetic talent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
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