Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote Part Two
1615
Ten years after the first volume and goaded by a fraudulent sequel, Cervantes published the second part of his masterpiece. The aging Quixote, now aware of his own fame, moves through a world where fiction and reality have started to contaminate each other. It is funnier, darker, and unmistakably modern.
In context
Also in 1615 (3 other events on record)
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Before and after in Europe
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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