The last days of Cervantes
(#LastDaysCervantes)
APRIL 18-23, 2016
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The research de Oro research group (GRISO) recreates Miguel de Cervantes' final thoughts on its Twitter account, @griso_unav, from April 18 to 23, until his death and burial.
Telling on Twitter what Cervantes' last days were like—or what they might have been like— was the goal this initiative promoted by a group students and the research de Oro (GRISO) research group at the University of Navarra. The project the rigor of objective information — period documentation , biographical research, bibliography with a certain amount of literary recreation .
We attempted to reconstruct a time frame spanning from April 18 to 23, 1616, the date on which Cervantes was buried in the convent of the Trinitarias Descalzas in Madrid. Until April 22, the day of his death, the narrating voice belonged to Cervantes himself: memories of his past life, which came to his mind in a somewhat "disordered order," from the full awareness of his worth as a writer, with his literary triumphs—and failures—with disappointments and unfulfilled dreams... In short, a plenary session of the Executive Council but, at the same time, necessarily partial, random, and subjective assessment plenary session of the Executive Council . As far as possible, phrases taken from Cervantes' own writings were used, sometimes spoken by some of his characters, but with the licence having been adapted to the occasion.
From the moment of his death, another narrator—a third person, a contemporary witness to the events—took over the story of Cervantes's funeral and provided us with some of the reactions, both real and possible or imagined, that took place in the Villa y Corte after the news of the death of the prince of Spanish ingenuity became known.
The story was constructed from the GRISO account, @griso_unav, from Monday, April 18, to Saturday, April 23, under the hashtag #ÚltimosDíasCervantes.
This initiative was part of the extensive program of activities developed by GRISO-University of Navarra throughout 2016, within the framework the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death , which included various publications, academic events, and other cultural outreach activities. This program culminated with the celebration at the University, on December 19-21, 2016, of congress Cervantes, His Work and His Time. Fourth Centenary (1616-2016) .
The posts
Monday, April 18, 1616
Cervantes is now old and very ill. He receives Extreme Unction. He recalls his programs of study, his time as a soldier (Lepanto), and his captivity in Algiers.
Portrait of Cervantes
I know who I am: Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, Exemplary Novels, and the great Persiles. #LastDaysCervantes
And I, Cervantes, sick, old, soldier, nobleman, and poor, know that I am rushing through the last moments of my life. #CervantesLastDays
I was born, if my calculations are correct, in 1547, when the heroic Emperor Charles defeated the Protestants at Mühlberg. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am in a constant state of light sleep. Today I dreamed about my father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, and my hometown of Alcalá de Henares. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I never set foot in a university classroom, but I always loved reading, even if it was just scraps of paper I found on the street. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
In Madrid, I attended the classes of the humanist López de Hoyos, who always considered me his dear and beloved disciple. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am very ill and can hardly get out of the humble bed in which I lie. Lying here, how slowly the hours pass! #Cervantes'LastDays
Some say that I fled to Italy to escape justice after a duel with a certain Sigura. I neither confirm nor deny this. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I just wanted to be Cervantes, not the shadow of another... But sometimes the shadow of another accompanies you throughout your life. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I have received the Holy Sacraments from graduate López. I am dying, but now I am at peace. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
In 1569, at the age of 22, I visited Rome for the first time. The city, its people, and its language made a deep impression on me. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I entered the service of Cardinal Giulio Acquaviva. I traveled extensively with him and always admired that free life in Italy. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
But I soon left the court for the military. I enlisted place soldier in Captain Diego de Urbina's company. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I fought against the Turks at Lepanto, the greatest event that past centuries have seen or future centuries will ever see. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes.
Cervantes at the Battle of Lepanto
I lost my arm in the Battle of Lepanto, but what an honor it was to receive a visit Don Juan of Austria in Messina! #ÚltimosDíasCervantes.
Don Juan of Austria and Cervantes (Eduardo Cano de la Peña)
It's already nighttime. My eyelids are heavy, I'll try to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel better and be able to pick up my pen. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
attention rest, but it's impossible: my past comes back to me in the form of memories... and ghosts. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Yes, I was a soldier for many years, and spent five and a half years as a prisoner in Algiers, where I learned to be patient in the face of adversity. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Algiers, what memories! My brother Rodrigo was also held captive, Antonio de Sosa, and that gardener Juan, who was from Navarre. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Water, bring me more water, please! This damn dropsy! No matter how much I drink, I'm always dying of thirst. #Cervantes'LastDays
Memories of Algiers! How can we forget the infamous slander of the Dominican Blanco de Paz, the cruel betrayal of El Dorador! #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Blessed Trinitarian fathers, blessed Juan Gil who rescued me from captivity! I cannot help but remember and be grateful. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
So many memories now! That was my youth, the youth of Cervantes. Back then, my life was still a work in progress. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes.
Tuesday, April 19, 1616
Cervantes writes the dedication of Persiles to the Count of Lemos. Memories of his narrative works and other personal experiences from the past mingle in his mind, especially his marriage to Catalina de Salazar and the trial of the family for the death of the knight Don Gaspar de Ezpeleta.
Don Pedro Fernández de Andrade, 7th Count of Lemos
Another day dawns and I'm still lying in bed. I'm tired, but I meeting lucid. I think I'll be able to write. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My eyesight is poor. I still wear my old glasses, which are so badly made that Lope thought they looked like fried eggs. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I will devote my last remaining strength to dedicating #Persiles to my great protector, the Count of Lemos. #LastDaysCervantes
"With my foot already in the stirrup, longing for death, great lord, I write this to you..." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The Last Moments of Cervantes, by Víctor Manzano and Mejorada
Yesterday I received Extreme Unction, and today I write this. Time is short, anxiety grows, hopes diminish. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"I live my life based on my desire to live, and I would like to put an end to it by kissing Your Excellency's feet." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"It could be that the joy of seeing Your Excellency well in Spain would bring me back to life." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"But if it is decreed that I, Cervantes, must lose my life, let the will of heaven be done." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"May God protect Your Excellency as best He can. From Madrid, April 19, 1616. Servant of Your Excellency, Miguel de Cervantes." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Writing these few lines has been an exhausting effort. My vision is blurring and the pen is falling from my hands. #LastDaysCervantes
I have a fever. I know I am delirious. I look at my wife Catalina, who lovingly wipes the sweat from my forehead, and I think I see Dulcinea. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
This disease is slowly killing me. I keep fighting, but my strength is waning and now I need to rest. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My characters appear to me in my dreams: Don Quixote, Sancho, Rinconete, the beautiful Auristela, and the gypsy girl Preciosa. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
What will the Indies be like, those Indies I could never reach because the vacancies were always for others? #LastDaysCervantes
Laínez's literary affairs led me to Esquivias, where I ended up finding love with my faithful Catalina. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
There was talk of a marriage of convenience (she was 19, I was 37). No, we were both wounded in our hearts. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The few good friends I have left come to visit me. There is no doubt: true friendships cannot be shaken. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Don Gaspar de Ezpeleta, why were you left badly wounded in front of my humble home in El Rastro, Valladolid? #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
They spoke of a mysterious murder at Cervantes' house. We only went out to help you, and a judge botched the trial. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The Cervantas called the women in my family derogatory names. And there were those who accused me of being their pimp. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I hardly sleep, always with this terrible thirst that would not be quenched even if I drank all the water in the ocean. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My novels have been like the children I never had with Catalina. I saw them come into being and grow up, and I have loved them deeply. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I had a nightmare. I was chained up in the bathrooms in Algiers, and Hasan Pasha ordered that I be given two thousand lashes. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I entrust myself wholeheartedly to God, who often showers His mercy when hopes are at their lowest. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Sleep is relief from the miseries of those who are awake, but for me, right now, sleep is beyond my reach. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I cannot forget my brother Rodrigo, who was held captive with me in Algiers. He later died in Flanders fighting with the Spanish infantry. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I remember that my sister Andrea portrayed me in the Valladolid process as a man who writes and does business. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
That's what I've been, and also a man who skill friends because of his good skill . But now, how few remain by my side! #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I was commissary of supplies in the service of King Philip for the Catholic and most fortunate Armada prepared against England. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
So much wheat and oil confiscated, so many ships and so many men lost! But without a doubt, it was all heaven's permission. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Those were years of counting arrobas and recording bushels. Then the accounts got mixed up, or I mixed up the accounts. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And I am aware that my hours are already numbered: "Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat." All wound, the last kills. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The English plundered Cádiz at will for days; and finally, very late, "the Grand Duke of Medina entered triumphantly." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I lived and wrote. It could well be said that my whole life has been an attempt to conquer irony in my writing. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Wednesday, April 20, 1616
Cervantes, too tired to pick up his pen and write, dictates the prologue to Persiles. He is very ill physically, but retains all his mental lucidity. Personal and literary memories come flooding back, especially those related to the cultivation of theater and his rivalry with Lope de Vega.
Map of Algiers
The roosters are crowing and dawn is breaking. I haven't been able to sleep all night, dreaming, remembering... #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The health of the body is forged in the office of the stomach. They bring me something to eat, but nothing settles in my stomach. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My stomach is swollen. I can barely walk a few steps. I've hardly gotten out of bed these past few days. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Instead, memories rush through my mind, people from the past quickly gather around my bedside. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I dreamed about Algiers again. I tried to escape four times, and failed each time. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
As I had Don Quixote say, freedom is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has given to men. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
It is true: one must risk one's life for freedom, and captivity is the greatest evil that can befall mankind. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Only my family's determination got me out of that hell. Held captive by the rescuers, my life cost 500 gold escudos. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
receipt visit some good friends, of the few I have left: Luis Vélez de Guevara and Vicente Espinel. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am told that Don Francisco de Quevedo, the great poet and fierce satirist, is absent from court on a trip to Cartagena. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My only wish is to finish #Persiles. I don't feel strong enough to write the prologue, but maybe I can dictate it. #LastDaysCervantes
Copy, my good Espinel, act as my scribe: "My life is coming to an end..." Do not weep, Catalina, my wife! #CervantesLastDays
Let's move on: "...and, as the days pass by, my pulses will finally complete their degree program ..." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"...I will finish the degree program my life." That's right, life is slipping away from me, I have very little time left in this world. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I do not fear death, although, as I wrote in #Persiles, its figure "in whatever guise it comes is terrifying." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I wish that the Third Order of Saint Francis take position my body when my soul exhales its last breath. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And I entrust the manuscript of #Persiles to Don Francisco de Urbina and Luis Francisco Calderón. #Cervantes'LastDays
My aging shoulders can no longer bear such a heavy load: the famous Bernardo and Las semanas del jardín remain unfinished. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The pain is exhausting me. I feel feverish and thirsty. There is no way I can sleep or rest. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I have been a theater enthusiast since I was young: in my youth, I was fascinated by show business and wrote about 30 comedies. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Then I gave up writing and comedy, and the great Lope de Vega took over the comic monarchy. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Lope de Vega
They said that much could be expected of my prose, but nothing of my verse; and it is true that it saddened me to hear this. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
In contrast, Lope triumphed with comedies that are mirrors of nonsense, examples of foolishness, and images of lewdness. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Yes, Lope's comedies are just marketable merchandise, plays written to appeal to the tastes of the ignorant masses. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Lope, the embroiderer's son, and I, Cervantes, the surgeon's son, competing for applause, fame, and money! #LastDaysCervantes
I wanted theater that adhered to the precepts of art. Lope, on the other hand, only wanted to please the masses who filled the courtyards. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And I was also a poet. They didn't understand that "the grace that heaven refused to give me" was just a joke and a bit of fun. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Thursday, April 21, 1616
Cervantes prepares for a good death: he confesses again and makes his will. He is completely lucid. Personal memories follow (his love affairs with Ana de Villafranca and Rojas, his natural daughter Isabel) and literary ones (Exemplary Novels, Don Quixote, Avellaneda, author of the apocryphal Don Quixote... ).
Amadis of Gaul
I would like to get some sleep, but the memories continue to haunt me. Oh, report, mortal enemy of my rest! #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
All these events form my pathway staff; they are the threads with which to weave my figure into the tapestry of life. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
How right I was when I wrote in Don Quixote that each person is the child of their deeds and the architect of their fortune. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And by stating that blood is inherited and virtue is acquired, and virtue alone is worth what blood is not worth. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I had Pastor Gelasia say it, but in reality it has been my life's axiom: I was born free and I will die free. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
From my early years, I loved the sweet art of pleasant poetry, and in it I always sought to please my readers. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I remember now that, when I was a boy, a young man from the south, I saw the plays of the great Lope de Rueda performed in Seville. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Amadís de Gaula, Tirante el Blanco! How I enjoyed chivalric novels when I was young! #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
A writer's first work is like first love. That love came to me with the publication of #LaGalatea in 1585. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Courtiers dressed as shepherds who have read Garcilaso and León Hebreo. Such was the pastoral fashion and convention. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Ana de Rojas! Back then, I had a frank love affair with her that extended beyond an honest glance. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
As a result of this, my daughter Isabel was born. It took me, God forgive me, 14 years to recognize her and give her the surname . #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
But how true it is, and Fénix #LopedeVega knows this well, that mistakes made for worthy loves are forgivable. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am proud of my #ExemplaryNovels. They are my own, not imitated or stolen from anyone. #LastDaysCervantes
Exemplary Novels
My ingenuity spawned those #ExemplaryNovels, and my pen gave birth to them, and they grow in the arms of the print.
In #Ejemplares, I have paved the way for the language to properly express folly. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I, Cervantes, am the first to have written novels in language ; I am the one who surpasses many in invention. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I have found in Don Quixote a pastime for my melancholic and sullen heart, in any season and at any time. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Don Quixote of La Mancha
My ingenuity spawned those #ExemplaryNovels, and my pen gave birth to them, and they grow in the arms of the print.
I never stopped feeling that you noticed my old age and my missing arm, as if it had been in my power to stop time. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Or as if my disability had been born in some tavern, but rather in the highest occasion that past centuries have seen. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
This wound, although it looks ugly, I consider beautiful because I received it on the memorable and lofty occasion of Lepanto. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
But I must not curse anyone at the hour of my death. I want to confess again with graduate Martínez. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I feel, my wife, that I am about to die; and I would like to make it clear that my life was not entirely bad. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Gentlemen, I feel as though I am dying at a rapid pace. #CervantesLastDays
Leave your mockery aside, and bring me a confessor to hear my confession and a notary to draw up my will. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Because in situations like this, man should not mock the soul. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I beg you, while graduate Martínez is confessing to me, to go and fetch the scribe Gabriel Martínez. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am dying poor, I have very few possessions, but I wish to make my last will and testament. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The Testament of Cervantes, Eduardo Cano de la Peña
I have made a full, true, and simple confession, and I have also made my will. I die at peace with God and with men. #Cervantes'LastDays
Where will all my papers, files, and drafts end up? But literary glory and fame no longer matter. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Blessed be the mighty God, who has done me so much good! Truly, His mercies are without limit. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And when I die, my sister Sister Luisa de Belén will pray for my soul from her convent in Alcalá de Henares. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Friday, April 22, 1616
Cervantes' agony and death. He remains lucid for a few hours, but then his last strength leaves his body. Finally, he dies. Immediately, there is a shift to another narrator, a contemporary witness, who comments in the third person on the news of his death and the preparations for his burial the following day.
Venerable Third Order of St. Francis
I, #Cervantes, know that the fatal moment is approaching, but my mind has not yet lost its lucidity and intelligence. #CervantesLastDays
The Terceros brothers give me their support with words of love and hope in eternal life. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
My good Sancho said it: "No one in this world can promise themselves more hours of life than God wishes to give them."
Yes, my friend Sancho, "death is deaf, and when it comes knocking at the door of our lives, it always comes in a hurry." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"...and death will not be stopped by pleas, nor by force, nor by scepters, nor by miters, as is widely known and reputed." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
How true it is: only those who die well can say they have a long life, and those who die badly, a death without measure. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I, Miguel de Cervantes, die with my thoughts on God and my heart on my works. #Cervantes'LastDays
Eduardo Cano de la Peña, Agony of Cervantes (Seville, Museum of Fine Arts). Detail
I request two masses for the repose of my soul, and the rest is left to the discretion of my wife Catalina, my executor. #Cervantes'LastDays
Gentlemen, let us leave little by little, for there are no birds in the nests of yesteryear. #LastDaysCervantes
Farewell, beloved Catalina. Farewell, thank you...; farewell, graces...; farewell, joyful friends... #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I... am dying... and I wish... to see you soon... happy... in the next life. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I am... Cervantes... I leave you... Don Quixote... the Exemplary Novels... and the great Persiles... I... can... no longer... #CervantesLastDays
From here on, we move on to the post-mortem tweets: there is a change in the narrative voice, which shifts to the third person.
The bells of San Sebastián parish church toll for the dead. Cervantes has breathed his last... #Cervantes'LastDays
What we feared has happened: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra passed away today, April 22, 1616, at the age of 68. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
#Cervantes, the brilliant author of #DonQuixote, has died! May the earth mourn him, his homeland honor him, and the heavens rejoice. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The news has spread like wildfire. It's the talk of the town: #Cervantes has died! #Cervantes'LastDays
#Cervantes, the healthy one-armed man, the famous one, the cheerful writer, and, finally, the joy of the muses, has passed away. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Rumors are circulating in the stands of San Felipe that he has order be buried in the convent of the Trinitarias Descalzas. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
#Cervantes has died so poor that tomorrow he will be buried as a Third Brother of Saint Francis. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Many ask: how could a man like Cervantes not have been richly supported by the Spanish government? #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
It's confirmed: Cervantes will be buried tomorrow in the church of the Convent of San Ildefonso de las Trinitarias. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
At the hour of his death, Cervantes did not forget that it was the Trinitarian friars who rescued him in Algiers. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The brothers of the Third Order will take turns praying beside his body throughout the night. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
His friends say that Miguel de Cervantes was always more knowledgeable about misfortune than poetry. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
His widow repeats that not a single day could she forget the passion that embraced them, now a painful delight of the soul. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Cervantes' widow, Catalina, says that when she dies, she wants to be buried next to her husband in Las Trinitarias. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Cervantes led an exemplary and heroic life. A soldier and captive in Algiers, he later exchanged arms for letters. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Always prone to laughter, this great poet, now old, had something of a gambler about him. But today he gave us an example of a Christian death. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Saturday, April 23, 1616
Cervantes' burial in the convent of the Trinitarias Descalzas in Madrid. Very few people accompany his mortal remains, because on that same day the people of Madrid carry the image of Our Lady of Atocha in procession in a prayer for rain. Only his widow, his closest relatives, and a few friends accompany him. Among them is a certain Lázaro Rodríguez, an eyewitness to the events, who takes on the task of recounting these hours and anticipates the writer's future glory.
Coffin with the initials M. C.
It is Saturday, April 23, 1616. Dawn breaks in the town and court of Madrid on a clear day with splendid sunshine. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Yesterday, Cervantes, "the distinguished and Christian genius of our time," passed away, and today we will bury him. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
I, Lázaro Rodríguez, at your service, will have the honor of telling you everything that happens today in Madrid. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
When the time came, all the Third Order members entered the house and knelt to recite the prayer of the Holy Shroud. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Very few of us attended his funeral at the parish church of San Sebastián: his widow, friends, and a few other writers. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
These are times of drought, and today the people of Madrid are holding a prayer service to implore the heavens for rain. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The image of Our Lady of Atocha is transferred from the parish church of Santa María to the convent of Santo Domingo el Real. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
For that reason, and because Cervantes did not have many friends (I being the least of them), it was a very private funeral. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Carried on the shoulders of his friends, #Cervantes took his last walk through Madrid today, from Calle del León to Calle de Cantarranas. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The modesty of Cervantes' coffin was well suited to the modest shroud in which he was wrapped. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
#Cervantes was buried as a Third Order Franciscan: with his face uncovered and wearing the Franciscan habit. #Cervantes'LastDays
Cervantes' death certificate
Cervantes' face looked serene as he was lowered into the grave. I, Lázaro Rodríguez, was there and can attest to this. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Aquiline nose, brown hair, smooth forehead, cheerful eyes, well-proportioned hooked nose, silver beard... #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
The remains of Cervantes have been laid to rest in the most dignified and comfortable place in Las Trinitarias. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
Convent of the Discalced Trinitarians of Madrid
The body sleeps underground, but the spirit of #Cervantes now ascends to immortality. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
May the prince of Spanish ingenuity rest in peace, whose writings will bring glory to his homeland and prestige to its literature. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
No gravestone or marker yet marks the place of his burial. The entire monastery now serves as his tomb. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
But Don Francisco de Urbina and Luis Francisco Calderón have both written epitaphs for the "Christian genius." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"Traveler, the pilgrim Cervantes is buried here; his body covers the earth, but not his name, which is divine." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"In short, he made his way; but his fame is not dead, nor his works, a sure pledge..." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
"...that he was able to depart, from this life to eternal life, with his face uncovered." #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
In the convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians, as he requested, his bones will rest for ever and ever. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
April 23, Book Day
But Miguel de Cervantes will enjoy the immortal life of fame, living on every time someone reads his works. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
His immortal Don Quixote is handled by children, read by young people, understood by men, and celebrated by the elderly. #ÚltimosDíasCervantes
And perhaps, long after Cervantes has left us, #BookDay will be celebrated on this same date. #LastDaysCervantes
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