Chris Via’s Reviews > No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes > Status Update

Four attempts at escape with miraculous immunity.

Affluent family driven downhill by a lusty grandfather; a fortunate, if brief, Jesuit education for the young Miguel; exiled from Spain under threat of having his right hand severed; joined the army in Italy; maimed in war (lost use of left arm); taken captive by pirates; imprisoned in Algiers; and the story continues.