Lothario
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Lothario is a name used as shorthand for an unscrupulous seducer of women, based upon a character in The Fair Penitent, a 1703 tragedy by Nicholas Rowe. In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who sed
![Camilla threatens Lothario with a sword. Illustration by Apeles Mestres [ca], engraving by Francisco Fusté.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1879%2C_El_ingenioso_hidalgo_D._Quijote_de_la_Mancha%2C_Arremeti%C3%B3_%C3%A1_Lotario_con_la_daga_desenvainada%2C_Mestres.jpg/500px-1879%2C_El_ingenioso_hidalgo_D._Quijote_de_la_Mancha%2C_Arremeti%C3%B3_%C3%A1_Lotario_con_la_daga_desenvainada%2C_Mestres.jpg)
Camilla threatens Lothario with a sword. Illustration by Apeles Mestres [ca], engraving by Francisco Fusté.
Don Quixote
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Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern
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…William Davenant. A character with the same name also appears in The Ill-Advised Curiosity, a story within a story in Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel, Don Quixote, Part One, however the "Lothario" there is most unwilling to seduce his friend's wife and only does so upon the urging of the former, who recklessly…
Don Quixote de la Mancha (first edition, 1605, printed by Juan de la Cuesta)
Don Quixote goes mad from his reading of books of chivalry. Engraving by Gustave Doré.
Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene
Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré