The routes of Cervantes — cervantes.withgoogle.com

Cervantes was captured on 25 September 1575. Cervantes's prodigious mind and his combination of personal memories and imagination are once again evident in this short story, in Chapter Ten of the Third Part of the Persiles: “What you see painted before you, ladies and gentlemen, is the city of Algiers, devouring the shores of the Mediterranean, a universal station of pirates, shelter and refuge of thieves, who from this little port that you see painted here leave in their ships to unsettle the world, for they dare to go beyond the plus ultra of the pillars of Hercules, and rush upon and rob the islands, which, being surrounded by the vast Ocean, thought that they were safe, at least from the Turkish ships…”

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