Sentence examples for cervantes from inspiring English sources
proper noun
(1547-1616), an influential Spanish author.
Who knows, in years to come French children may learn Eurodates such as 1455 (Gutenberg prints a Bible); April 23rd 1616 (Cervantes and Shakespeare die); 1957 (Treaty of Rome signed); and 2002 (the euro, as planned, replaces the French franc).
Another example is Bentley's "Cervantes": The people of Spain think Cervantes Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes: An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy.
The insight of Durer – not to mention Shakespeare and Cervantes – that mental shadows are part of human life was lost on the founders of London's Bethlem Hospital.
Analysts say they will eventually catch up with its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.
With some notable exceptions, ranging from Virginia Woolf and Ho Chi Minh to Tony Blair and Georg Lukacs, a Marxist critic, people gave up on Scott.The Scots, who had once gushed that "Cervantes has done much for Spain and Shakespeare for England, but not a tithe of what Sir Walter Scott has accomplished for us," now rejected Scott and turned to Rabbie Burns as their literary hero.
Mr Muñoz Molina, who was the director of the New York office of the Instituto Cervantes, a body to promote Spanish culture, recalls that regional presidents would turn up in the city with vast entourages.
BY DAY tourists flock to Plaza de España in central Madrid to snap photos beside the sculpture of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".
During this profoundly inventive period, a national theatre emerged, fuelled by the energies of artists such as Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, Tirso de Molina, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Miguel de Cervantes.
His Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905; Life of Don Quixote and Sancho) is a detailed analysis of Miguel de Cervantes' literary characters.
Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, and other contemporary writers imply a Mexican origin.
He introduced the Miguel de Cervantes model of Don Quixote in his Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalva (1764; The Adventures of Don Sylvio von Rosalva) and the Henry Fielding model of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews in his Geschichte des Agathon (1766 67; The History of Agathon).
