Note 549 — BOOK XII[500]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), the author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, was captured on returning to Spain, four years after the Battle of Lepanto, in 1575, and passed five years in captivity in Algiers. He was ransomed by his family and religious charity in 1580.—T.