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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 primary

The translator links Cervantes’ ancestry to Don Quixote’s critique of sham chivalry, notes Cervantes’ birth at Alcalá de Henares and baptism on 9 October 1547, and sketches Spain’s transition from old chivalry to absolutism and Inquisition rule.

and Columbian branches of the family; and another, Juan, whose son Rodrigo married Dona Leonor de Cortinas, and by her had four children, Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and Miguel, our author. The pedigree of Cervantes is not without its bearing on "Don Quixote." A man who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a stro…