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Excerpt from Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra: The Author of Don Quixote
In 1568 there came'to Madrid - charged with a message of condolence from the pope to Philip II, on the death of his son Don Carlos, and with sundry complaints respecting de fault of allegiance to Rome - the Cardinal Acquaviva, who, though only in his twenty-fifth year, had already earned a name for culture and a good disposition to letters. With him Cervantes took service as a camarero, or page, - an employ ment held to be no humiliation in that age, even to young men of noble birth, - returning in the suite of his patron to Rome by way of Valencia, Barcelona, and the south of France. Apparently, the post was not to the taste of one in whom the sight of Italy - then for the greater part a fief of Spain awakened more of warlike than of poetic ambition.
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