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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 9, 1547 - April 23, 1616), was a Spanishauthor, best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha.

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born to a family of modest means in 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He never obtained a university education. In 1569 he left for Italy where some elegies he wrote were published.

He also joined a Spanish regiment there and was wounded while fighting in the Battle of Lepanto against the Turks in 1571; as a consequence, he lost the use of left hand. From then on he was called 'el manco de Lepanto' (Lepanto's one-handed).

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In 1575, while returning to Spain from the Netherlands, he was captured by Barbary pirates based in Algiers. He was held captive in Algiers until he was freed in 1580 when his ransom was paid.

Upon returning to Spain he married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios in 1584 and published La Galatea[?] a year later; he was a supplier and a tax collector for a wh