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Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter.The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in ...

Esta obra corta de Cervantes se denomina un entremés.En ella se trata de las desavenencias conyugales de tres matrimonios distintos. Esos tres matrimonios, para poder solventar sus diferencias, acuden al juez, a ver si éste considera que sus disputas son suficientemente importantes como para concederles el divorcio.Cada uno de ellos tiene motivos diferentes... alguno de ellos, completamente disparatado. También va a intervenir un procurador que intenta mediar entre ellos y el juez.Al final, la aparición de unos músicos pone un final feliz a las disputas, dejando entrever las ventajas y desventajas del matrimonio.

Known as the High Renaissance period, the philosophy of the 1500s leaned towards establishing the relationship between the human body and the human soul. Logic was waning as a philosophical ideal and, instead, the focus fell on human nature. ‘500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 16th Century’ cherry-picks some of the most profound and insightful observations from some of the finest minds of that era. A superb gift for history buffs and philosophy fans alike.