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The Knight of the Woeful Figure

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

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The History of Spanish Chivalry

Miguel de Cervantes was in the Battle of Bopanto. There's still a lot of tension in this kind of Ottoman Empire and Europe. So he's well aware of that, it's clear within the book. But I was going to say that this is considered the first novel in modern history. And yeah, so birth of the modern novel.

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