Don Chisciotte

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I due riprendono la strada e incontrano una comitiva costituita da due frati dell'ordine di San Benedetto, un cocchio con dentro una dama biscaglina diretta a Siviglia, quattro persone a cavallo di scorta e due mulattieri a piedi. Don Chisciotte scambia i due frati per degli incantatori e la dama per una principessa rapita e ordina loro di liberarla. Seguono altre zuffe. Don Chisciotte della Mancia (in spagnolo El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) è un romanzo spagnolo di Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, pubblicato in due volumi, nel 1605 e 1615. È considerato non solo come la più influente opera del Siglo de Oro e dell'intero canone letterario spagnolo, ma un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale nella quale si può considerare il primo romanzo moderno. Vi si incontrano, bizzarramente mescolati, sia elementi del genere picaresco sia del romanzo epico-cavalleresco, nello stile del Tirant lo Blanch e del Amadís de Gaula. I due protagonisti, Alonso Chisciano (o don Chisciotte) e Sancio Panza, sono tra i più celebrati personaggi della letteratura di tutti i tempi. The plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, an hidalgo [d] from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant ( caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. [b] He recruits as his squire a simple farm labourer, Sancho Panza, who brings a unique, earthy wit to Don Quixote's lofty rhetoric. In the first part of the book, Don Quixote does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story meant for the annals of all time. However, as Salvador de Madariaga pointed out in his Guía del lector del Quijote (1972 [1926]), [7] referring to "the Sanchification of Don Quixote and the Quixotization of Sancho", as "Sancho's spirit ascends from reality to illusion, Don Quixote's declines from illusion to reality". [8] González Echevarría, Roberto (2015). "1. Introduction: Why Read the Quixote?". Cervantes' Don Quixote. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300213317.

Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature. New Directions Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-0811218757, p. 15.

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Don Quixote (right) and his squire, Sancho Panza; illustration from a 19th-century edition of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. (more) Puchau de Lecea, Ana (25 June 2018). "Guide to the classics: Don Quixote, the world's first modern novel – and one of the best". The Conversation . Retrieved 1 July 2020. XXI. Che tratta della magnifica avventura e della ricca conquista dell'elmo di Mambrino, con altri fatti accaduti al nostro invincibile cavaliere In Don Quixote, there are basically two different types of Castilian: Old Castilian is spoken only by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a contemporary (late 16th century) version of Spanish. The Old Castilian of Don Quixote is a humoristic resource—he copies the language spoken in the chivalric books that made him mad; and many times, when he talks nobody is able to understand him because his language is too old. This humorous effect is more difficult to see nowadays because the reader must be able to distinguish the two old versions of the language, but when the book was published it was much celebrated. (English translations can get some sense of the effect by having Don Quixote use King James Bible or Shakespearean English, or even Middle English.) [ citation needed]

XXV. Avventure straordinarie che nella Sierra Morena successero al valoroso Cavaliere della Mancia: penintenza da lui fatta a imitazione del Beltenebroso

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Gutenberg.org. 27 April 2010. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013 . Retrieved 5 February 2014.