Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra was in prison when he created the character of the
impoverished aristocrat Don Quixote. Ten years earlier, he’d
fought bravely, apparently in the crucial Battle of Lepanto, the
1575 clash between the Ottoman Turks and the Christian “Holy
League.” Hundreds of gal
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