Time (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family (of the Havana Castros). Barlow's gastronomic travelogue manages to make the place sound utterly depressing and enchanting at the same time.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Joanot Martorell’s 1490 “Tirant lo Blanc” isn’t on anyone’s reading list these days, and that’s rather a shame, for it — the first Catalan novel — was a favorite book of Miguel de Cervantes.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
... and work of the author, who is considered by the critics as the greatest Spanish writer, since Miguel de Cervantes (author of the famous book "Don Quixote de La Mancha").Speaking about the donation, the director of the National Library, Maria José Ramos, said that the signing of this memorandum represents a strengthening of the cultural relations between Angola and Spain."Besides...
