Don Quixote (Book)
Don Quixote
1605 AD - 1615 AD
The adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.
He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time.
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Attachments
Don Quixote, Prado Museum First editions of the first and second part
Windmill scene from Don Quixote by Gustave Dore, 1863
