6/29/2023 0 Comments Don quixote by cervantesDon Quixote (pronounced “kee-hotay”) was written at the end of his life and in the midst of the second of these periods. The first was a “golden age” of military success, national pride, and intellectual freedom the second, a time of economic and military weakness and religious and intellectual repression. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived through two distinct periods in Spanish history. A novel in two parts set in early seventeenth century Spain the first part published in 1605, the second in 1615.Ī middle-aged gentleman imagines that he is a knight and sets out on a series of adventures with his “squire.” an illiterate peasant.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novel
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