Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote

Website portal created by the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes in partnership with the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales. It provides access to the work of Cervantes, which can be consulted in HTML or audiobook format. It also enables the digitalized first editions and later translations and works inspired by Cervantes’ life or work to be consulted online.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work Viaje del Parnaso by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Encore, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Encore, the UOC Virtual Library search engine on the work El cerco de Numancia by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Encore, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work El trato de Argel by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work La Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work Novelas ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes catalogue. The results provide access to different editions, which can be freely consulted.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes.

Interactive book (in Spanish) on the work Don Quixote. At this link you can consult the first edition of the most important work by Cervantes. It contains a map of Don Quixote’s adventures, a gallery of images from the work and additional information on chivalric romances and life in the period. Moreover, you can read the transcription of the original text and search the content.

Audiobook version (in Spanish) of Miguel de Cervantes’ most famous work, Don Quixote. Access through the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the work Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

Thematic website featuring a wide selection of texts and studies on books of chivalry. The section Catálogo gives you the opportunity to consult old and modern editions published within this literary genre. Also of special note is the section Enlaces with abundant related information.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on books of chivalry.

Pre-configured search on Amadís de Gaula of the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia.

Thematic website featuring a wide selection of texts and studies on the work by Joanot Martorell, Tirant lo Blanc. It contains a detailed bibliography on the use of the language, as well as a section with pictures from incunabula and engravings.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on chivalric romances.

Pre-configured search on Tirant lo Blanc of the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia.

Unfinished film written and directed by Orson Welles and shot between 1957 and 1963 in which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza travel through 1960s Spain. Coinciding with the Seville Expo 92, Jesús Franco edited the film following Welles’ written indications.

The archive of Radio y Televisión Española provides free access to the five episodes of the television series El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes, directed by Manuel Gutierrez Aragón and with script by Camilo José Cela. The series, broadcast in 1992 on TVE, features Fernando Rey in the role of Don Quixote.

Pre-configured search of the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia on the free adaptation of Cervantes' work directed by Albert Serra in 2006. In this film, Don Quixote and Sancho ride aimlessly while debating such matters as spirituality and chivalry.

Film project by Terry Gilliam based on Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. The director and scriptwriter has been trying to make the film since 1998 but it has been thwarted by a variety of problems. In 2015 Amazon announced that it would produce the film, with shooting expected to begin in 2016.

Multimedia database featuring music from the 17th century to the present, inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote. It also contains monographic articles, illustrations and video and sound fragments that enrich the information provided.

Article published in the journal Arbor in 2004 featuring the paper read by Santiago Ramón y Cajal at the San Carlos Medical College in 1905 on the 3rd Centenary of the publication of Don Quixote.

In this article, published in the Revista de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría in 2003, the authors medically diagnose Don Quixote based on psychopathological analysis.

In this article, published in the journal Neurología in 2011, the author explains the “Don Quixote syndrome”, which refers to the changes in behaviour related to the reading of a literary work.

Pre-configured search of Summon, the UOC Virtual Library search engine, on the relationship between Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote and Barcelona.

Pre-configured search on Don Quixote's relationship with Barcelona of the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia.

In this article, published in the journal Anales Cervantinos in 2005, Carme Riera relates Cervantes' memories of Barcelona on his way to Lepanto with the places visited by Don Quixote in the book.

In this book, Martí de Riquer offers a detailed study of Cervantes' life and the documented events of the history of the city in the early 17th century.

The Catalan Tourist Board offers a literary route through the streets of Barcelona that Miguel de Cervantes visited in the early 17th century.

This book, by the historian Rafa Burgos, presents a route to discover Don Quixote's Barcelona.

Historical novel by the writer Carlos Lúria with the adventures and possible experiences of a young Cervantes in the city of Barcelona.

Exhibition organized by the Spanish National Library and Acción Cultural Española on the 4th Centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes. On this website you can watch a video of the opening lecture by the curator José Manuel Lucía Megías and consult a selection of images from the exhibition.

Website of the exhibition held in 2005 in Barcelona on the 4th Centenary of the publication of the first part of Don Quixote. You can explore the sections of the exhibition.

Spanish language literary award presented since 1975 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to Spanish and Latin American writers who have contributed to enriching the literary heritage in Spanish. On this website you can consult the biography and bibliography of the awardees and the awards ceremony presentation speech.

Every year, Alcalá de Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes, holds the "Semana Cervantina". Over the week a series of cultural activities are scheduled, including exhibitions, theatre performances, literary events, book presentations, and so on.

The Spanish 10, 20 and 50 cent coins of the euro, European Union official currency since 2002, bear the image of Miguel de Cervantes, considered the father of Spanish literature and a symbol of the universal nature of his work.