ABSTRACT
Miguel de Cervantes was born at Alcala de Henares and there baptized on the 9th of October 1547. At the age of twenty-two Cervantes commenced the wandering life which brought him into such strange adventures. In addition to numerous occasional pieces, Cervantes wrote during middle age thirty dramas. Cervantes’ venture brought to the general reader what he wanted, and he refused any longer to be amused according to the goodwill and pleasure of a literary class. Cervantes had established his reputation as a literary man, but the attention he received took the form rather of malignant attacks prompted by jealousy, than of acceptance into the ranks of the great authors of the age. In the Voyage to Parnassus Cervantes once more sought the favour of the poetic muse whom he had so often wooed, and who had so seldom proved kind.
