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Definition of Miguel de cervantes
1. Noun. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Author, Writer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miguel De Cervantes
Literary usage of Miguel de cervantes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"Noticias para la Vidu <le Miguel de Cervantes ... Vida de Miguel de Cervantes,
etc., por D. Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, published by the Spanish Academy ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra... con varias noticias. . . pertenecientes
... Miguel de Cervantes, his life and works. London : A. and C. Black, 1895. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"Bv Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. A Translation, with Introduction and Notes, by
John Ormsby, Translator of the Poem of ' The Cid.' 4 vols. London, 1885. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There exists a warrant (dated September 15, 1569) for the arrest of one Miguel
de Cervantes, »ho had wounded Antonio de Sigura, and had been condemned in ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The " Marquesa " was on tie left wing, having on board Miguel de Cervantes, who
lay in his cabin ill of a fever. On coming into action, his ship being in ..."