The Man Who Was Don Quixote: The Story of Miguel Cervantes

by Rafaello Busoni

Book Overview

A biography of the sixteenth-century soldier, slave, actor, playwright, prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, and author of Don Quixote. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135481074
• ISBN13: 9780135481073
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

The most enjoyable biography available of Cervantes...

Rafael Busoni's 1958 biography of Miguel de Cervantes is every bit as entertaining as the story of Don Quixote. Busoni also copiously illustrates Cervantes' life from boyhood to deathbed, war to prison, marriage to theatre career. Though told in the form of a novel, Busoni gave critical attention to the actual facts of Cervantes' life and while some dialogue or details here and there may obviously be told with some artistic license, the essence of the history is accurate to the core. Busoni actually visited many of the sites discussed in the book and for his time, may have been one of the most respected scholars of Cervantes' life and times. For anyone studying Cervantes, Don Quixote, or The Man of La Mancha (musical), this book is an invaluable resource into the man behind the legendary "knight-errant." Unfortunately, it's long out-of-print and library copies are few. If you can get it, treasure it.