article_snippet: , one must attempt the absurd," wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain.
article_snippet: And the quest to find Miguel de Cervantes remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say his remains) quixotic in a time of recession.
article_snippet: We have Miguel de Cervantes, represented in some form in this group of bones that are unfortunately very degraded and very fragmented," Francisco Etxeberria told national television.
article_snippet: The forensic team had been hoping that some of those remains would positively identify Cervantes, who suffered gunshot wounds in the chest and left hand at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
article_snippet: But they are not in sufficiently good shape, and some of those remains found may be of Miguel de Cervantes wife, Catalina de Salazar.
article_snippet: Nor will DNA analysis be much help, for there are no known descendants of Miguel de Cervantes.
article_snippet: Catalina was not Miguel de Cervantes first partner.
article_snippet: As a teenager Miguel de Cervantes ran away from home with a barmaid, Josefina de Perez, before enlisting with the Spanish Navy.
article_snippet: It was only in the 1580s that Miguel de Cervantes started to write, publishing "La Galatea" in 1585 and Miguel de Cervantes most famous work, "Don Quixote," in 1605 -- or to give its full title, "The Adventures of the Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
article_snippet: But "Don Quixote" would hardly be noticed in Miguel de Cervantes lifetime, and Miguel de Cervantes was almost penniless when Miguel de Cervantes died, having joined the Third Order of St. Francis in Miguel de Cervantes declining years.
article_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes knew Miguel de Cervantes was dying when Miguel de Cervantes wrote in the prologue of a posthumously published novel, "Perhaps the time may come when I mend again this broken thread and say what words fail me here and what needed to be said.
article_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes was buried on April 23,1616 -- in the same week William Shakespeare died.
article_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes might enjoy all the attention.
article_snippet: Many literary critics say Miguel de Cervantes was not aware of Miguel de Cervantes own genius.
article_snippet: John Ormsby, a scholar and translator of Miguel de Cervantes work in the 19th century, wrote of "Don Quixote," "Never was a great work so neglected by its author.
highlights_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes died in 1616 .