It is very likely that between 1581 and 1583 La Galatea Cervantes wrote his first literary work in volume and importance. It was published in Alcalá de Henares in 1585. Until then only a few songs had been published in books of others, in ballads and songbooks, which gathered production of various poets.
The Galatea appeared divided into six books, but only wrote the 'first part '. Cervantes pledged to continue the work, but never reached print. In the prologue the play is described as 'Eclogue' and emphasizes the hobby that Cervantes has always been poetry. It is a pastoral novel, a genre that had settled in Spain, the Diana of Jorge de Montemayor. You can still watch the readings he made when he was a soldier in Italy. The marriage to his wife did not work. Separated from the same two years, without having to bear children. Cervantes never talks about his wife in her many autobiographical works, although it is he who debuted in the Spanish literature the subject of divorce, then impossible in a Catholic country, with the interlude of the divorce judge. It is assumed that the marriage was unhappy, though at the starter says'better the worst concert / not divorce better. "
