a
novel written in the seventeenth century by Miguel
de Cervantes. The hero, Don Quixote (
don is a Spanish
title of
honor), loses his wits from reading too many romances and comes to believe that he is a
knight destined to revive the
golden age of
chivalry and as such has many adventures. At one
point in the story, his inability to distinguish
reality from
imagination leads him to
attack a windmill
thinking it is a giant. See also
Cervantes in this glossary.
the hero of a
novel written in the seventeenth century by Miguel
de Cervantes (1547 - 1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist and poet). Don Quixote (
don is a Spanish
title of
honor), loses his wits from reading too many romances and comes to believe that he is a
knight destined to revive the
golden age of
chivalry and as such has many adventures. At one
point in the story, his inability to distinguish
reality from
imagination leads him to
attack a windmill
thinking it is a giant.
an extremely large
novel (more than 1,000 pages) written in the seventeenth century by Spanish novelist Miguel
de Cervantes (1547- 1616). The story tells of an elderly country gentleman, Alonso Quijano, whose
mind becomes so confused by reading
romance tales he believes himself a
knight destined to revive the
golden age of
chivalry. Changing his name to Don Quixote (
don is a Spanish
title of
honor) he goes forth into the
world with his
attendant, Sancho Panza. Paying no
heed to Panza's realistic warnings,