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Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Culture: Spanish
Date: early 17th c.
Genre: satirical novel
Names/terms to know: Don
Quixote, Sancho Panza,
Dulcinea, Sansón Carrasco,
Marcela, Grisóstomo,
chivalry & pastoralism
Cervantes Background
Son of a poor doctor, did not
have a humanist education
Cervantes’ adventurous life:
Fought in religious wars
Captured by pirates
Spent 5 years as a slave
Held government jobs.