Don Quixote (character)
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Alonso Quijano, more commonly known by his pseudonym Don Quixote, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
Statue of Don Quixote in Ciudad Real
Sancho Panza
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Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the
Don Quixote (character)
…Martín Quijada. Knights in the chivalric books Alonso Quijano read, which reading caused his madness, have nicknames. In Chapter 19 of Part I his squire Sancho Panza invents his first nickname, the hard-to-translate "Caballero de la Triste Figura": knight of miserable (triste) appearance (figura). Sancho explains…
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid (Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, 1930)
Bronze statues of Sancho Panza (L) and Don Quixote (R) at the Cervantes Birthplace Museum
Honoré Daumier − Don Quichotte und Sancho Panza (c. 1868)
Sancho laments the fall of his master.