Miguel de cervantes characters in alice
Miguel de cervantes characters in alice in red.
Miguel de cervantes characters in alice
List of Don Quixote characters
Characters from 17th century novel
The following is a partial list of characters in the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Main characters
- Alonso Quijano (or Quesada, or Quijada), who calls himself Don Quixote (can be modernized as Quijote), a Spanishgentleman and hidalgo of La Mancha, who believes himself to be, and acts as befitting, a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, which he reads avidly until he goes insane.
He rides a common, sickly nag named Rocinante.
- Sancho Panza (or Zancas), Don Quixote's fat, unkempt squire. He is uneducated and unable to read, but he knows numerous proverbs and rides a donkey. In the second part of Don Quixote, he is given the island of Barataria to rule by the duke and duchess.
Other characters
- Antonia, Alonso Quijano's niece, a woman under twenty; she urges both the priest and the barber to burn all of Alonso's books
- Antonio, a goath