For Paid subscribers: Cervantes and His Age: Don Quixote and a Spain in Crisis [Jan. 23 2pm EST Lecture]

RTF Lecture invitation

Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is commonly considered the first modern novel. It certainly is one of the most beloved -- it has more translations than any book save the Bible. Everyone knows the story of the lovable madman who imagines himself to be a knight and goes "tilting at windmills" -- a term that has entered the common lexicon and the popular…