Cervantes soldado de la infantería española

Zusammenfassung

In Italy, Miguel de Cervantes joined the Spanish Army in 1570 as an infantry soldier in one of the companies that formed the Spanish regiments which, in Sicily, Naples or Flanders, took part in the defense of the territories integrated in the Spanish Crown. As for the rest of the life of the writer, there are not many data about this period, which lasted from 1570 to 1575. However, there is enough information to reconstruct the years when Cervantes went through the Mediterranean Sea participating in different campaigns under the orders of don Juan de Austria. This article gathers the documents that deal with the military activities of the writer and the texts of his writings, where he recalls and analyzes this period.