Miguel de Cervantes y Flandes

Miguel de Cervantes had higher opinion of the foreign policy of Emperor Charles V and his combat against the Turks, than of the foreign policy of Phillip II with Flanders. This article uses four works of Cervantes, two plays ;La gran sultana doña Catalina de Oviedo ;, ;El trato de Argel ;, and two novels, "Historia del cautivo" (in ;El Quijote ;) and ;El licenciado Vidriera ;, in an attempt to explain the reasons why the author of ;El Quijote ; has the military campaign in the north in low esteem, while supporting, on the other hand, Spain‘s foreign policy in the Mediterranean, and preferring... Mehr ...