Miguel De Cervantes

Cervantes' Life 1547-1616

• 1547 - Born in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid • 1569 - in Rome as valet to Monsignor Acquaviva.• 1571 - fights at the battle of Lepanto• 1575 - on his way back to Spain is captured and held

prisoner in Algiers• 1580 - after 4 attempts to escape he is set free• 1592 – while he is an administrator for the Invincible Armada

he is arrested for the illegal sale of wheat. • 1593 - he works as a tax collector• 1594 - he ends up in jail again. • 1605 - El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha is

published in Madrid • 1616 - he dies the same day as Shakespeare

Picasso

The Windmills

Don Quixote in his library

Don Quixote prepares to leave for his first adventure.

Don Quixote travels across the hot plain.

Don Quixote asks the innkeeper to make him a knight.

The innkeeper helps don Quixote drink since he cannot remove his helmet.

Don Quixote

watches his armor before being

dubbed a knight.

Don Quixote is dubbed a knight by the innkeeper.

Don Quixote

defends a servant that is

beaten by a farmer.

Unable to move because of the weight of his armor, Don Quixote is beaten by the mule driver.

Don Quixote is left hurt on the side of the road after his encounter with the merchants.

Don Quixote is helped by a farmer of his village who brings him back

home.

Don Quixote is arrives back home after his first adventure.

Don Quixote’s house keeper burns the books of chivalry.

Don Quixote convinces a poor farmer to become his squire.

Don Quixote leaves

with Sancho

Panza for his

second sally

Don Quixote

fights the windmills.

Don Quixote is knocked out after

hitting the windmill.

Don Quixote fights the Biscayan.

The ladies of the coach beg Don Quixote to spare the squire’s life.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza discuss their plans.

Don Quixote is content with sleeping under the open sky like a knight-errant.

Don Quixote

fights the sheep that he believes

armies ready to battle.

Don Quixote frees prisoners that he encounters on the road.

Don Quixote

questions the

prisoners on the

reason of their

misfortune.

Don Quixote and Sancho are hit with stones by the now

freed prisoners.

Don Quixote attacks the penitents, and after being hit he is believed dead.