Note 45 — Chapter V · SPANISH PROSE ROMANCE.
Reading edition
The main authority for the life of Cervantes is still the Biography by Don Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, published by the Spanish Academy in 1819. The memory of Cervantes has undergone the misfortune of becoming the object of a cult to the persons calling themselves Cervantistas, who have made it an excuse for infinite scribbling. A few new facts of no importance have been discovered, but Navarrete’s Vida remains the real authority.