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The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda: read in Spanish (C2)

Read Cervantes’s Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda in Spanish. Level C2: very long periods and 17th-century romance vocabulary, with instant word translation.

Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Miguel de Cervantes)

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Level C2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Long periods with embedded clauses, 17th-century vocabulary and old forms (desta, dél, fué), the register of a Golden Age adventure romance

This article contains the complete text of Miguel de Cervantes’s Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617, here from the 1920 Calpe edition), his last novel: four books of voyages, captivities and pilgrimage from the northern seas to Rome. Level C2 suits readers who are comfortable with sentences of about 48 words and classical prose. You will learn the language of the Spanish Golden Age adventure romance and the long, balanced period.

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