![]() ![]() Once in Italy, Cervantes served in the household of Cardinal Giulio Acquaviva, and by 1570 he enlisted with a Spanish regiment stationed in Naples. In the same year, Cervantes left for Rome, possibly because a warrant for his arrest had been issued that condemned him in absence to having his right hand cut off and to be exiled from the capital for ten years for wounding a man. ![]() We do know, however, that he published his first poem, on the death of Philipp II’s third wife, Isabel de Valois, at the age of twenty-one. When his father fell on hard times, the family moved from town to town and the aspiring author might have studied under the Jesuits. His father was a barber-surgeon who set bones, performed bloodlettings, and attended lesser medical needs. Miguel de Cervantes was probably born on 29 September 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, in the Community of Madrid. ![]()
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