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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1,043 pp.)-By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; translated by Samuel Putnam-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Already the books are rolling from the printing presses and scholars are gathering in solemn conclaves throughout the world to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Miguel do Cervantes Saavedra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Will Honor Cervantes Anniversary | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

Maimed Soldier. Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, died in the year (1547) Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra was born. The writer's life outlasted the Siglo de oro (Golden Century) of Spain's empire; he died in the same year (1616) as his great contemporary, Shakespeare. A soldier, like every active Spaniard of his period, Cervantes commanded a longboat against the Turks at the decisive sea fight of Lepanto (1571) and got his left hand crushed. The Christian commander, Don John of Austria, later gave him a letter of commendation. Carrying the letter, Cervantes was captured by the Turks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Satirist | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Nobody knew how William Shakespeare and Miguil de Cervantes Saavedra were feeling. New editions* of Macbeth and Don Quixote were to come out with illustrations by Salvador Dali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Maria Luisa Correa Larrain 30 The Robles Entry 23 Olivia Bunster Saavedra 19 Sylvia Gonzalez Rodriguez Elinor Poudensan Vasquez a dead heat, 14 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1944 | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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