Miguel de Cervantes was held captive in Algiers for five years. ... and his novel La Galatea (1585), to his posthumous book The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617), ...

Four hundred years after Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes died on April 22, ... He published his first novel “La Galatea,” a road story about two friends who love the same girl, ...

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615) ... (Cervantes’s own La Galatea among them), most books are burned for their responsibility in Don Quixote’s madness.