such letters this month, when met 393 years of the death of our most universal writer: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. I would like to rescue some of the curiosities that throughout history have been going around the big novel unmatched, mother of how many have been written in the last four centuries in Castilian.
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- The first attempt to erect a monument to Cervantes was the work of invading monarch, José Bonaparte in 1809. His first idea was to raise at Alcala de Henares, and would be paid for by all cities of the kingdom except by the Alcalá. Later he changed his mind and called a tender to erect the monument in Madrid on the site of the house where he died. However, the vicissitudes of his reign were finally thwarted in their desires.
Picture of Joseph I Did you know ...?
- Mariano de Cavia, responsible journalist and Cervantes among others, for organizing the centenary of Don Quixote III, made a fun environment classification Cervantes scholars "hardened and empecatados cervantólogos, cervantógrafos, cervantósofos, cervantólatras, cervantófilos, cervantómanos, cervantópatas and cervantópetas " reflected in his view, the typology of madmen by the writer at that time.
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- Guillem Morey Mora in 1969 published a book which stated that El Greco was the real author of the work of Don Quixote. According to it the Greco would really be a Jew, wrote the manuscript of the book in Arabic under the name of Cide Hamete over the years 1585 and 1590. Convert the painter recoated after Christianity and the work of the Inquisition, left with the promise of absolution. Later Cervantes buy it in Toledo, send and end up posting to translate it touches. In this way the true author, according to Morey, become a character in his own book, since it would Hamete another Theotocópoli Dominico.
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"None of the portraits that we now can make as genuine Cervantes. Although at the time, the same writer says Jauregui was doing one, the current picture posted in Academia, you can not authenticate securely. The main arguments against are: the table despite being a picture of the time has been retouched, even in the twentieth century. Cervantes was never called that same Don Miguel, but Miguel and Juan Jauregui did not sign, but as Don Juan. Finally the type of picture captions were not fed frequently in the paintings of the era.
Portrait attributed to Jáuregui Did you know ...?
-The popular hero of Cervantes's most notable work has grown to become one of the most universally recognized at a glance.
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"At a time when few people could read, bullets -called "hallelujah" were the type of illustration that helped popularize the character of Don Quixote and his adventures among the lower classes of the nineteenth century.
Hallelujah "Life of Don Quixote" Did you know ...?
-Between 1871 and 1873 was published thanks to Colonel Francisco López Fabra, the first facsimile edition of Don Quixote that according to its editor was the first work reproduced in the world by the process of photo-typography. We can now purchase a reprint of these and other iconography in 1879 after reviewing 60 public Fabra illustrated editions.
home current reissue, editorial Extramuros Did you know ...?
"One of the rarest editions known of Don Quixote was published between 1905 and 1906 in San Feliu de Guixols. The issue in question is printed on very thin sheets of cork in two volumes in a room with Gothic types. The initial print run was 52 copies and each copy was accompanied with an affidavit justifying the circulation could not be higher due to the difficulty of finding high-quality cork. The success of this rare edition was published in 1912 and another in the same material.
Qujiote cork, 1909 Did you know ...?
"One of the most curious translations, and in turn we can find polemics that not long ago made the philologist Mexican and U.S. resident, Ilan Stavans . The controversy is coming because the translation of Spanglish, the slang spoken by approximately 25 million U.S. Hispanics Stavans, a professor at the Massachusetts College Amberts, begins his work as follows: "In a small square of the Mancha remenbrearme Which name I lived, not so long exhausted, one of those gentleman Who always have a spear in the rack ... "
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- José Coll i Vehí in 1874 wrote an essay on proverbs cited in Don Quixote, sorted by topic and glossed. From this I conclude that the sayings were 73 in the first half and 200 in the second and accounted for a quarter of those contained in the Dictionary of the Royal Academy. ---------------------
All these sights and many more will find all those good readers who want the entertaining work entitled: Locos por el Quijote , teacher and writer of documentaries Manuel Serrano Velez.
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