Biografia de un personaje importante (Puede ser cualquiera pero que sea importante) En ingles utilizando el verbo To - Be?

Miguel deCervantesSaavedra

(Alcaláde Henares, Spain, 1547 - Madrid, 1616)Spanish writer.

Fourthson of a poordoctor, Rodrigo deCervantesand Leonorde Cortinas, his childhood was markedbythe pressingeconomic problems ofhis family, whoin 1551moved toValladolid, the thenseat of the court, in search of betterfortune.

There, young Michaelbeganhis studies, probably ina Jesuit college.

Whenin 1561the court returned toMadrid, Cervantesfamilydid the same, alwayswaiting for alucrativefee.

Family instabilityandrandomfluctuationsof his father(whowas imprisonedfor debtValladolid) determined thattheir intellectual, though extensive, was ratherimpromptu.

Still, it seemslikely thatfrequentedthe universitiesof Alcala deHenaresand Salamanca, astheirtexts arecopiousdescriptionsof roguestudentof the time.

In 1569he left Spain, probablybecause of someproblemwith the law, and settled inRome, where he entered themilitary, inthe companyof DonDiego deUrbina, with which he participatedin the Battle ofLepanto(1571).

Thisnaval battleagainst the Turkswas wounded by aharquebusin the left hand, whichwasstagnant.

When, after several years ofgarrison lifein Sardinia, Lombardy, Naples andSicily (where he acquired agreat knowledgeof Italian literature), returnedback to Spain, the shiphe was travelingwas boardedbyTurkish pirates(1575), whichthey capturedand soldinto slavery, along with his brotherRodrigo, in Algiers.

There he remaineduntil, in 1580, an emissaryof his familymanaged to paythe ransom demandedby his captors

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