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=**__Miguel Cervantes__**= Miguel Cervantes was a Spanish writer who lived from 1547 to 1616. Little is known of Miguel's training, but it is possible that he studied under priests inspired by humanism. As for his personality, he was a great reader and loved to write. He was adventurous and courageous and had a sense of humor. Basically he was a likeable man, but his humor could often be biting. Even so he would compensate for any possible insult by constantly turning his humor on himself. Once he is said to have made a joking comment about his plays by saying t hat his audiences enjoyed his plays because they didn't boo or through vegetables at the actors. Miguel's talents were greatly centered on writing. He was specifically good at satires and used this form of humor for his plays. His master piece is a comedic play titled "Don Quixote" the story of an old man that is deeply obsessed with the age of knights and the middle ages.

The achievements of Miguel Cervantes impact our society today because he was a great artist who opened up new forms of art in the Renaissance. He expanded upon different, and not as common, forms of writing for those time periods.This makes out to mean that many of the ways that comedy and literature is seen in our society today may not have existed as we know them without him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes

http://www.nndb.com/people/069/000084814/

http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/