[41] This paragraph is from a letter to Luther.
[42] From a letter to Henry VIII of England.
[43] From a letter to Cardinal Wolsey.
[44] From a letter to Melanchthon.
[45] From a letter to Adrian VI, who became Pope in 1522.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Born in 1547, died in 1616; of a poor but noble family; studied at Salamanca; served as a chamberlain to the future Cardinal Aquaviva in Rome in 1570; in the army under Don John of Austria against the Turks; lost the use of his left arm in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571; taken prisoner and spent five years in slavery in Algiers, being ransomed in 1580; returned to Spain and married in 1584; imprisoned for debt and served as an amanuensis; wrote the first part of "Don Quixote" at Valladolid in 1603; returned to Madrid and published the second part in 1615; his other works are "Galatea," published in 1584, "Moral Tales" in 1613, "Journey to Parnassus" in 1614, and twenty or more plays.