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Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Used for/see from:
  • Quixano, Alonso (Fictitious character)
  • Quijano, Alonso (Fictitious character)
  • Quijana, Alonso (Fictitious character)
  • Quixote, Alonso Quixano, Don
  • Don Quijote (Fictitious character)
  • Quijote, Don (Fictitious character)
  • Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
  • Don Quixote de la Mancha
  • De la Mancha, Don Quixote
  • Mancha, Don Quixote de la
  • La Mancha, Don Quixote de
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, MDCCLXXXVII, 1787.

Wikipedia, 22 July 2016 (Don Quixote; Don Quixote de la Mancha; name taken by a Spanish hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano)

Encycopaedia Britannica online. March 1, 2010 (Don Quixote (fictional character) also spelled Don Quijote; 17th-century Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The book, orig. pub. in Spanish in two parts (1605, 1615), concerns the eponymous would-be knight errant whose delusions of grandeur make him the butt of many practical jokes. Plot: an aging minor nobleman named Alonso Quixano, enamoured by chivalric romances, christening himself "Don Quixote" sets out from his home village of La Mancha on a quest for adventure)

IMDB, 22 July 2016 (Don Quixote is an elderly sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman, unmarried, well-mannered and cultured, whose real name is Alonso Quijana (or Quijano, depending on which film version of "Don Quixote" you are watching). He is the title character of the novel "Don Quixote de La Mancha", by the real-life Spanish author, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1616). It is considered by many critics to be the greatest novel ever written.)

Don Quixote is a fictitious charater created by Miguel de Cervantes in the seventeenth century.

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