Don Quijote De La Mancha Summary

Alonso quixana is an older gentleman who lives in la mancha in the spanish countryside.

Don quijote de la mancha summary. It is considered a prototype of the modern novel. In a few days time don quixote puts on a rusty suit of armor and sets out on his first sally. After don quixote has adventures involving a dead body a helmet and freeing a group of galley slaves he and sancho wander into the sierra morena and there encounter the dejected cardenio. Hopeful of finding a proper noble to dub him quixano finally is licensed in his venture by an innkeeper who believes him to be a lord of a manor.

Every knight errant is in love with a beautiful lady so don quixote selects for his beloved a girl named aldonza lorenzo a pretty peasant girl from a nearby village whom don quixote had never met and who may or may not have existed. It tells the story of an aging man who his head bemused by reading chivalric romances sets out with his squire sancho panza to seek adventure. Then he names his old frail horse rocinante to honor its new position as the horse of a famous knight errant and he renames himself don quixote de la mancha. The tired hack and dray horse becomes elevated to rosinante.

Attired now to his satisfaction don quixote sets out for his first adventure. Don quixote is a middle aged gentleman from the region of la mancha in central spain. The galley slaves and cardenio chapters 19 24 don quixote de la mancha and sancho panza 1863 by gustave doré. Don quixote novel published in two parts part 1 1605 and part 2 1615 by spanish writer miguel de cervantes.

Disappointed at having found no adventure at all he pleases himself by considering the inn a great castle with buttresses moat and lofty pinnacles. Now quixano is don quixote de la mancha. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. He travels all day until he comes to an inn at dusk.

He names himself don quixote de la mancha names his bony horse rocinante and gives his beloved the sweet name dulcinea. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. He has read many of the books of chivalry and as a result he has lost his wits and he decides to roam the country as a knight errant named don quixote de la mancha.