Don Quixote de la Mancha

Don Quixote de la Mancha (SP) Hero of Miguel de Cervantes' (1547 – 1616) novel (Part I, 1605; II, 1615) of that name. Archetype of the noble fool, his mental imbalance is due to his spending too much time reading books of chivalric exploits. He rides through Spain jousting with windmills, seeing fields of sheep as armies and wayside inns as castles, adhering to his own idealistic code of chivalry, fighting for the fair maid Dulcinea with his faithful, if somewhat more realistic, companion…