“My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes, book La gitanilla

La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)

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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

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