‘La mesa de los trucos de Cervantes’ exhibition can be visited at the Cervantes Birthplace Museum, in Calle Mayor 48, Alcalá de Henares, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10-18 hours, until April 27, 2014. Free entry.
The Cervantes Birthplace Museum is extending the temporary exhibition ‘La mesa de los trucos de Cervantes’. 400 years of the Exemplary Novels. Visited by about 65,000 people, this exhibition allows visitors to see the famous novels of Cervantes and its various editions over four centuries.
The exhibition shows twelve short novels, twelve Cervantes texts of which “you can get some helpful example” as specified by Cervantes. Exposed editions come both from the museum’s own collections and from other collections in the region.
It exhibits a total of 28 editions of these twelve short novels (El licenciado vidriera, La gitanilla, El coloquio de los perros y Rinconete y Cortadillo…), printed in cities like Pamplona, Venice or Antwerp, alongside full works of Cervantes containing these novels.
You can visit the Cervantes Birthplace Museum in Calle Mayor 48, Alcalá de Henares, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10-18 hours, until April 27, 2014. Free entry.
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