Cervantes: A History of the Spanish Empire

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Cervantes was born in 1547, we think died in 1616. There's a couple of different articles about his family perhaps being of Jewish ancestry. He did he went to school unclear if he finished. And then there were two decades where he didn't publish anything and then Don Quixote came out.

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.

In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.

Join us as we meet this errant knight-errant!

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