In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). His "lady" is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farm girl by the illusion-struck "knight" (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)ĭon Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Download cover art Download CD case insert Don Quixote - Vol.
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