A character in Don Quixote
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A middle-aged nobleman who loses his sanity from reading too many chivalric romances and reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote.
Also known as: the hidalgo, the gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote, the knight-errant
Inside the story
Alonso Quijano is a middle-aged nobleman, known as the gentleman of La Mancha, whose heavy reading of chivalric romances has unsettled his grasp of reality. At the story’s outset, he reinvents himself as Don Quixote, a knight-errant determined to live by the ideals of those books.
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