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Also Known As	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Born	September 29, 1547? • Alcalá de Henares • Spain
Died	April 22, 1616 • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works	“Don Quixote” • “El coloquio de los perros” • “Exemplary Stories” • “Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional” • “Ocho comedias, y ocho entremeses nuevos” • “Viage del Parnaso”
Movement / Style	Golden Age

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Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote. Engraving from 1843 by E.Mackenzie and published in London by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.

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