Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Also known as Don Quixote of La Mancha · the Ingenious Don Quixote · the Knight of La Mancha · Quixada · Quesada · Quexana · the Knight of the Rueful Countenance · he of the Rueful Countenance · the Knight of the Lions · Alonso Quixano · Alonso Quixano the Good

A gentleman of La Mancha who spent much of his life believing himself a knight-errant. After recovering his reason, he rejects books of chivalry, makes his will, and dies peacefully, asking forgiveness for having encouraged the false continuation of his history.

the housekeeper

Don Quixote’s housekeeper, who urges him to stay home rather than attempt pastoral life. She tends him during his final illness and is named in his will as owed wages and money for a gown.

the niece

Also known as Antonia Quixana · Don Quixote’s niece

Don Quixote’s niece, daughter of his sister. She tends him during his final illness and inherits his property, subject to his condition that she not marry a man who knows books of chivalry.

the curate

Also known as Licentiate Pero Perez · Señor Licentiate Pero Perez

Don Quixote’s village curate and friend. He hears Don Quixote’s confession, confirms that he has recovered his reason, and is appointed an executor of his will.

Samson Carrasco

Also known as the Bachelor Samson Carrasco · the son of Bartholomew Carrasco · the Knight of the White Moon

A witty young bachelor and Don Quixote’s friend. He visits him during his final illness, encourages the proposed pastoral life, and is appointed an executor of the will; he also writes an epitaph for Don Quixote.

the barber who helps Don Quixote’s friends

Also known as our own barber · the curate’s friend the barber · Master Nicholas

The village barber and Don Quixote’s friend. He visits Don Quixote during his final illness and is present when he recovers his reason.

Sancho Panza

Also known as Sancho · Sancho Zancas

Don Quixote’s practical squire and faithful companion. He stays at his master’s bedside through his final illness, weeps at his approaching death, and urges him to live and take up their planned shepherd life.

the doctor who attends Don Quixote in his final illness

Also known as the doctor

An unnamed doctor who examines Don Quixote and warns that his body is in poor health, advising him to attend to his soul.

the notary who records Don Quixote’s will

Also known as the notary · Master Notary

An unnamed notary summoned to record Don Quixote’s will. He later witnesses Don Quixote’s peaceful death and certifies that he died naturally.

Barcino

Also known as one of the two dogs Samson bought

One of two dogs Samson Carrasco buys to guard the flock for their planned pastoral life.

Butron

Also known as the other of the two dogs Samson bought

One of two dogs Samson Carrasco buys to guard the flock for their planned pastoral life.

the herdsman of Quintanar

Also known as the shepherd who sold Samson the dogs

An unnamed herdsman from Quintanar who sells Samson Carrasco the two dogs intended to guard the planned flock.

Cide Hamete Benengeli

Also known as Hamete Benengeli · the Arab historian

The Arab historian presented as the source of Don Quixote’s history. At the close, he addresses his pen and declares that he alone was meant to write Don Quixote’s story, condemning the rival continuation.

the pretended Tordesillesque writer

Also known as the author of the false Second Part · the Aragonese author · the new historian · the author of this book · the author from Tordesillas · one of Tordesillas · Avellaneda of Tordesillas · one Avellaneda of Tordesillas

The rival writer who published a false continuation of Don Quixote’s history. Don Quixote asks his executors to seek the writer’s forgiveness, while Cide Hamete condemns the writer’s attempt to take up Don Quixote’s story.

Altisidora

Also known as the enamoured Altisidora

One of the Duchess’s damsels, who pretends to love Don Quixote as part of the castle’s staged amusements. She feigns death and resurrection, claims to have visited hell, and later admits the episode was make-believe; she gives Sancho six smocks.

Tosilos

Also known as the lacquey Tosilos

A Gascon lacquey of the duke who was substituted for the wealthy farmer’s son in the arranged combat with Don Quixote. He yielded and offered to marry Doña Rodriguez’s daughter, but was beaten by the duke afterward; he later reports that the daughter became a nun and Rodriguez returned to Castile. Don Quixote mistakenly suspects that the lacquey he meets on the road is Tosilos transformed by enchanters.

the Duchess

Also known as the fair huntress

A noblewoman who hosts Don Quixote and Sancho with her husband, the Duke. She helps stage Altisidora’s mock death and resurrection and promises to have Altisidora occupy herself with needlework.

the Duke

Also known as the duke

The Duchess’s husband, who hosts Don Quixote and Sancho and stages pranks at the castle. He arranges the mock death and resurrection of Altisidora, later explaining the scheme to Samson Carrasco.

Rocinante

Also known as the hack

Don Quixote’s lean horse and constant companion. He is knocked down when a herd of pigs tramples the party.

Dapple

Also known as Sancho’s ass · Sancho’s old Dapple

Sancho’s ass and trusted companion. He is knocked down by a herd of pigs; on the return to the village Sancho decorates him with the robe and mitre from the Duke’s prank.

the Duke’s household servants

Also known as the men-servants and women-servants

Unnamed members of the household who line the castle galleries, welcome Don Quixote, and throw scented-water pellets. The Duke also deploys many of them to intercept Don Quixote on his journey home and stage Altisidora’s mock resurrection.

the duke’s two lackeys

Also known as the two equerries

Unnamed servants dressed in crimson satin who greet Don Quixote at the castle gate and ask him to help the duchess dismount.

the author of this veracious history

Also known as the author

The unnamed narrator of the history, who recounts Sancho’s governorship and Don Quixote’s adventures at the Duke’s castle. He reports that the Duke and Duchess staged Altisidora’s resurrection and judges their elaborate joke foolish.

the two kings in the staged court

Also known as the two persons who looked like kings

Two unnamed performers seated on a stage during the Duke’s mock resurrection of Altisidora. One is Minos and the other Rhadamanthus.

Minos

Also known as the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus

A performer dressed as the judge of the dead in the Duke’s staged court. He calls on Rhadamanthus to announce what must be done to restore Altisidora.

Rhadamanthus

A performer dressed as a judge of the dead in the Duke’s staged court. He orders Sancho to endure smacks, pinches, and pinpricks as part of Altisidora’s supposed resurrection.

the damsel lying in state

Also known as the dead damsel

Altisidora, feigning death on a catafalque during the Duke and Duchess’s staged entertainment. She sits up when Sancho’s tormentors begin their performance.

the six duennas who torment Sancho

Also known as the duennas

Six unnamed women in a procession who each smack Sancho as part of the staged ceremony to revive Altisidora. Sancho strongly objects to being touched by duennas.

the officials who torment Sancho

Also known as the officials of the house · Sancho’s tormentors

Unnamed members of the Duke’s household ordered to smack, pinch, and prick Sancho during the staged ceremony for Altisidora.

the young singer at Altisidora’s catafalque

Also known as the musician · the musician and songster

An unnamed young performer who sings verses beside Altisidora’s catafalque while playing a harp. He later tells Don Quixote he admires his fame and achievements.

the devil who tells another devil about the false Second Part

Also known as one devil

An unnamed devil in Altisidora’s tale of her visit to hell. He identifies the false Second Part of Don Quixote and says it is so bad it should be cast into hell.

the other devil in the tennis game

Also known as the other devil

An unnamed devil playing tennis in Altisidora’s account of the gate of hell. He asks about the book identified as the false Second Part of Don Quixote.

the devils playing tennis

Also known as the dozen or so devils

A group of devils Altisidora claims to have seen at the gate of hell, playing tennis with books as balls and arguing whether they win or lose.

the shepherd Quixotize

Also known as Don Quixote’s proposed shepherd name

The pastoral name Don Quixote chooses for himself when imagining a year of retirement as a shepherd.

the shepherd Panzino

Also known as Sancho’s proposed shepherd name

A pastoral name Don Quixote suggests for Sancho when imagining their shepherd life.

the shepherd Samsonino

Also known as the shepherd Carrascon · Samson Carrasco’s proposed shepherd name

A pastoral name Don Quixote suggests for Samson Carrasco; Samson later says he may be called Carrascon.

the shepherd Curiambro

Also known as the shepherd Curambro · the curate’s proposed shepherd name

A pastoral name Don Quixote suggests for the curate; on returning home he also calls him Curambro.

Teresona

Also known as Sancho’s proposed shepherdess name for Teresa

The pastoral name Sancho proposes for his wife Teresa, formed from her name and referring to her stoutness.

the shepherdess Teresa Panza

Also known as Teresaina · Teresa

Sancho’s wife, Teresa Panza, whom he imagines as his beloved when he considers a pastoral life. Samson Carrasco suggests the alternative pastoral name Teresaina.

the shepherdess of the curate

Also known as the curate’s imagined shepherdess

An unnamed woman the curate might choose to praise in pastoral verses if he joins Don Quixote’s shepherd life.

the shepherdess of Samson Carrasco

Also known as Samson Carrasco’s imagined shepherdess

An unnamed woman Samson Carrasco might choose to praise in pastoral verses if he joins Don Quixote’s shepherd life.

Apollo

Also known as the rubicund Apollo

The sun god invoked in Don Quixote’s imagined account of his first sally. His chariot is also invoked figuratively when Don Quixote impatiently awaits nightfall.

Diana

The goddess of the moon, described by the narrator as strolling in the antipodes and leaving the night dark.

Teresa Panza

Also known as Sancho’s wife · Teresa · Teresa Cascajo

Sancho’s wife and mother of Sanchico and Sanchica. She welcomes Sancho home and jokes that she cares mainly that he brought money; Sancho says he loves her more than his own eyelids.

Sanchica

Also known as Sancho and Teresa’s daughter · the young woman washing clothes in Sancho’s village

Sancho and Teresa Panza’s daughter. She runs out with Teresa to welcome Sancho home, asks whether he brought her anything, and leads Dapple back to the house.

the bachelor who quarrels with Periquillo

Also known as Periquillo · one of the two boys quarrelling

An unnamed village boy who quarrels with another boy over a cage of crickets. Don Quixote misreads his words as an omen about Dulcinea.

the boy who owns the cage of crickets

Also known as the other boy

An unnamed village boy whose cage of crickets is taken by another boy. Sancho pays for the cage and gives it to Don Quixote.

the sportsmen pursuing the hare

Also known as the hunters

Unnamed hunters who pursue a hare with greyhounds near the village. Don Quixote gives them the hare after Sancho catches it.

the hare pursued by greyhounds

Also known as the hare

A hare pursued by greyhounds that takes shelter beneath Dapple. Sancho catches it and hands it to Don Quixote.

the greyhounds pursuing the hare

Also known as the greyhounds

Unnamed hunting dogs that pursue a hare near Don Quixote’s village.

the men driving the pigs

Also known as the pig drovers

Unnamed men taking more than six hundred pigs to a fair. Their herd tramples Don Quixote, Sancho, Rocinante, and Dapple in the night.

the herd of pigs

Also known as the drove · the unclean beasts

More than six hundred pigs being driven to a fair. They trample Don Quixote and Sancho and scatter their belongings.

the armed men who capture Don Quixote and Sancho

Also known as the horsemen and men on foot · their captors

Unnamed servants of the Duke who intercept Don Quixote and Sancho on the road, threaten them with lances, and bring them back to the castle for a staged spectacle.

the official who puts a robe and mitre on Sancho

Also known as the official

An unnamed member of the Duke’s household who dresses Sancho in a flame-painted robe and mitre during the staged ceremony.

Don Álvaro Tarfe

Also known as the gentleman from the false Second Part

A gentleman travelling to Granada who appears as a character in the false continuation of Don Quixote’s history. He says he knew that book’s Don Quixote and Sancho, but declares that the real Don Quixote and Sancho before him are different people; he signs a formal declaration confirming this.

the alcalde of the village where Don Álvaro meets Don Quixote

Also known as the alcalde

An unnamed village magistrate who formalizes Don Álvaro Tarfe’s declaration that he has never met the real Don Quixote and Sancho before.

the notary who records Don Álvaro Tarfe’s declaration

Also known as the notary

An unnamed notary present with the village alcalde when Don Álvaro Tarfe formally declares that he did not know the real Don Quixote and Sancho.

the other Don Quixote in the false Second Part

Also known as the imaginary Don Quixote · Don Quixote the Bad

A fictional version of Don Quixote in the false continuation, whom Don Álvaro Tarfe knew and accompanied to Saragossa. Don Álvaro says this version differs greatly from the real Don Quixote.

the other Sancho Panza in the false Second Part

Also known as the Sancho Panza in the false history

A fictional version of Sancho in the false continuation, whom Don Álvaro describes as greedy, dull, and less witty than the real Sancho.

the two boys fighting at the village entrance

Also known as the boys

Two unnamed boys quarrelling over a cage of crickets as Don Quixote and Sancho enter their village.

the greyhound’s owner

Also known as one of the sportsmen

An unnamed hunter who asks for the hare that Sancho catches near the village entrance.

the bride in the painted tapestry

Also known as Helen

Helen, depicted on the inn’s wall hanging being carried off from Menelaus. Don Quixote remarks that she appears to go willingly.

Menelaus

Helen’s husband, mentioned in the painted story of her abduction.

the fugitive guest in the painted tapestry

Also known as Æneas · Aeneas

Æneas, depicted at sea on the inn’s wall hanging in the story of Dido.

Dido

A queen depicted weeping on the inn’s wall hanging as Æneas sails away.

Orbaneja

Also known as the painter of Úbeda

A painter from Úbeda whom Don Quixote cites as an example of an artist who paints whatever happens and labels it so viewers know what it is.

Mauleon

Also known as the poet called Mauleon

A poet formerly seen at court who answered questions at random; Don Quixote recalls his comic response to a question about Latin.

Samson

Also known as the biblical Samson

A biblical figure invoked by Sancho when he strikes a tree during his feigned whipping.

the muleteer who leads the mule carrying Samson Carrasco’s arms

Also known as the peasant

An unnamed peasant who leads a mule carrying Samson Carrasco’s armour when Carrasco sets out to find Don Quixote.

the page who carried Teresa Panza the letter and gifts

Also known as the page sent to Teresa Panza

A quick-witted page who played Dulcinea in the staged procession. He carried a letter and gifts to Teresa Panza; Samson Carrasco learns Don Quixote’s whereabouts from him.

the rich gentleman who hosts Don Quixote in Barcelona

Also known as the conductor · Don Antonio Moreno

Don Antonio Moreno, a wealthy, intelligent gentleman in Barcelona who hosts Don Quixote and Sancho and arranges harmless amusements for them. He stages a talking-head trick, takes Don Quixote to a printing office and the galleys, and follows the Knight of the White Moon to learn his identity.

the wife of Don Antonio Moreno

Also known as Don Antonio’s wife

A high-ranking, lively, beautiful, and witty woman who welcomes Ana Felix into her home. She hosts a dance for Don Quixote and helps entertain her husband’s guests.

Don Antonio’s two friends

Also known as the two friends of Don Antonio

Two unnamed gentlemen who join Don Antonio, Don Quixote, and Sancho to test the supposed enchanted head. One is identified as Don Pedro Noriz; the other asks what his eldest son wishes.

Don Pedro Noriz

Also known as Don Antonio’s friend

A friend of Don Antonio who tests the supposed enchanted head by asking whether it knows who he is.

the gentleman whose eldest son wishes to bury him

Also known as the other friend of Don Antonio

An unnamed friend of Don Antonio who asks the supposed enchanted head what his eldest son wishes. The head replies that the son wishes to bury him.

the two ladies who dance with Don Quixote

Also known as the two mischievous ladies

Two unnamed friends of Don Antonio’s wife who dance persistently with Don Quixote at a party, tiring him out. They later join the group that tests the supposed enchanted head.

the woman who asks how to become beautiful

Also known as the fair querist

An unnamed friend of Don Antonio’s wife who asks the supposed enchanted head how she can become very beautiful. It answers that she should be very modest.

the married lady who asks whether her husband loves her

Also known as the second lady

An unnamed friend of Don Antonio’s wife who asks the supposed enchanted head whether her husband loves her. It advises her to judge by how he treats her.

the nephew who answers through the talking head

Also known as Don Antonio’s nephew · the smart sharp-witted student

A clever student and nephew of Don Antonio who secretly answers questions through a concealed tube beneath the supposed enchanted head. He has been told who will attend and guesses the other answers.

the Polish magician who made the talking head

Also known as the Pole

An unnamed magician, said by Don Antonio to be Polish and a pupil of Escotillo. He made the head for a payment of a thousand crowns; the history later reveals that Don Antonio built it himself.

Escotillo

Also known as the famous Escotillo

A magician whom Don Antonio names as the teacher of the supposed Polish maker of the talking head.

the Castilian who rebukes Don Quixote

Also known as the advice-giver

An unnamed Castilian who reads the placard on Don Quixote’s back and loudly tells him to go home and stop his foolish adventures. Don Antonio rebukes him for meddling.

the servants keeping Sancho entertained

Also known as Don Antonio’s servants

Unnamed household servants instructed to entertain Sancho so he will not leave while Don Quixote is out.

the boys and crowd who read Don Quixote’s placard

Also known as the boys · the people

Unnamed people in Barcelona who crowd around Don Quixote to read the placard identifying him. Their press forces Don Antonio to remove it.

the husband of the lady who asks the talking head about him

An unnamed man whose wife asks the supposed enchanted head whether he loves her; the answer advises her to judge by his treatment of her.

the eldest son of Don Antonio’s friend

Also known as the son who wishes to bury his father

An unnamed man mentioned when his father asks the supposed enchanted head about his wishes. The head says he wishes to bury his father.

the talking head

Also known as the enchanted head · the sage head

A bronze-coloured bust presented as an enchanted oracle that answers questions. It is a trick built by Don Antonio, with his nephew speaking through a concealed tube.

the image maker in Madrid

Also known as the maker of another head

An unnamed image maker whose talking-head contrivance in Madrid served as a model for Don Antonio’s device.

the inquisitors

Also known as the sentinels of our faith

Unnamed inquisitors who order Don Antonio to break up the talking head after rumours of its supposed enchantment spread through Barcelona.

the viceroy of Barcelona

Also known as the viceroy

An unnamed viceroy who comes aboard the galleys after they capture a brigantine. He intervenes to spare the young Morisco woman’s life, helps arrange the rescue of Don Gaspar Gregorio, and hosts Ricote.

the general of the galleys

Also known as the general · the Valencian gentleman

An unnamed high-ranking Valencian gentleman who commands the galleys. He welcomes Don Quixote aboard, captures a brigantine, and initially orders its crew hanged after two of his soldiers are killed, but the viceroy persuades him to spare the two Turks.

the boatswain of the galley

Also known as the boatswain

An unnamed officer who directs the galley crew, signals them to strip and work the awning, and whips the rowers as the vessel puts to sea.

the rower who tosses Sancho

Also known as the aftermost rower on the right

An unnamed galley rower who, as part of a planned prank, lifts Sancho and passes him from hand to hand along the benches until he is returned to the poop.

the galley crews

Also known as the crews · the rowers

Unnamed galley crews who row during the chase and pass Sancho from hand to hand as a prank. The boatswain whips them to keep the oars moving.

the two soldiers killed aboard the galley

Also known as the two soldiers

Two unnamed soldiers stationed along the galley’s sides, killed by shots from the brigantine.

the rais of the brigantine

Also known as the young rais · the young man in charge of the brigantine

A handsome youth initially presented as the brigantine’s captain and condemned to hang after two galley soldiers are killed. The captive’s story reveals that the rais is actually Ana Felix, a Christian Morisco woman.

Ana Felix

Also known as Ana Felix Ricote · the fair Morisco · the Morisco Christian · the Moorish girl · the young rais · the daughter of Ricote · Ricota · Ricota Ricote

Ricote’s beautiful, intelligent Catholic Christian daughter, born to Morisco parents. After expulsion from Spain she is taken to Algiers, where she disguises Don Gaspar Gregorio as a woman to protect him; she returns to Spain seeking her father’s buried treasure and is reunited with Ricote and Gregorio. Don Antonio’s wife hosts her while efforts are made for her to remain in Spain.

the Spanish renegade on the brigantine

Also known as the Spanish renegade · the renegade

An unnamed Spaniard serving aboard the brigantine who is secretly Christian and wants to remain in Spain. At Ana Felix’s recommendation, he leads a small vessel back to Algiers and successfully rescues Don Gaspar Gregorio; he later returns to the Church.

the two drunken Turks aboard the brigantine

Also known as the two Toraquis · the two Turks

Two unnamed drunken Turks who shoot and kill two galley soldiers during the brigantine’s attempted escape. The general orders them hanged, but the viceroy persuades him to spare them.

the Turkish and Moorish rowers aboard the brigantine

Also known as the rest of the crew

Unnamed sailors aboard the brigantine who serve as rowers and are captured with the vessel.

the soldiers lining the galley

Also known as the soldiers

Unnamed soldiers stationed along the sides of the galley; two are killed by the Turks’ gunfire.

Don Gaspar Gregorio

Also known as Don Gregorio · the young gentleman lord of a nearby village

A young Christian gentleman who loves Ana Felix and joins her in exile. Captured in Algiers, he is disguised as a Moorish woman and placed among high-ranking women; the renegade later rescues him, and he reunites with Ana Felix in Barcelona.

the father of Ana Felix

Also known as Ana Felix’s father · Ricote

A Morisco and Catholic Christian who leaves Spain to seek refuge abroad, then returns disguised as a German pilgrim to find Ana Felix and recover buried treasure. He is reunited with his daughter in Barcelona and offers to fund the rescue of Don Gaspar Gregorio.

the mother of Ana Felix

Also known as Ana Felix’s mother

An unnamed Christian woman and mother of Ana Felix, who raises her in the Catholic faith.

the father of Don Gaspar Gregorio

Also known as Don Gregorio’s father

An unnamed gentleman who is lord of a village near Ana Felix’s home and Don Gaspar Gregorio’s father. Don Antonio plans to take Gregorio home to ease his parents’ anxiety.

the two uncles of Ana Felix

Also known as Ana Felix’s uncles

Unnamed Morisco relatives who take Ana Felix to Barbary during the expulsion from Spain, despite her protest that she is Christian.

the King of Algiers

Also known as the king

An unnamed ruler in Algiers who orders Ana Felix to return to Spain for her buried treasure. He has Don Gaspar Gregorio brought before him, then sends him away disguised as a woman to be presented to the Grand Signor.

the Grand Signor

Also known as the Grand Turk

The Ottoman ruler to whom the King of Algiers intends to present Don Gaspar Gregorio, believing him to be a beautiful young woman.

the Moorish women of rank who house Don Gaspar Gregorio

Also known as the Moorish ladies of rank

Unnamed high-ranking women in Algiers whose household is chosen to protect and attend Don Gaspar Gregorio while he is disguised as a woman.

the young Morisco woman taken to Barbary

Also known as the young woman

An unnamed Christian Morisco woman mentioned by Ana Felix as another person taken with her to Barbary.

the inhabitants of Barcelona who come to see Ana Felix

Also known as the people of the city

Unnamed Barcelonans who flock to Don Antonio’s house to see Ana Felix after she arrives.

the men who row the rescue vessel

Also known as the Christian rowers

Unnamed Christian rowers who accompany the renegade on the vessel he takes back to Algiers to rescue Don Gaspar Gregorio.

the galleys’ commandant

Also known as the commandant

An unnamed official in command of the Barcelona galleys who is told in advance that Don Antonio will bring Don Quixote and Sancho to visit.

the city’s watchful religious authorities

Also known as the watchful sentinels of our faith

Unnamed religious authorities whose possible attention leads Don Antonio to disclose the talking-head trick to the inquisitors.

the author of the Second Part of Don Quixote of La Mancha

Also known as the author of the false Second Part · the Aragonese author · the new historian · the author of this book · the author from Tordesillas · one of Tordesillas

An unnamed writer who published a false continuation of Don Quixote’s history. Don Quixote encounters the book being corrected in a Barcelona printing office and condemns it as an intrusive fiction.

the author of Le Bagatelle

Also known as the Italian-book translator · the translator of Le Bagatelle

An unnamed man translating an Italian book into Spanish and printing it at his own risk. Don Quixote questions his word choices and warns that his sales estimate is overoptimistic.

the printer setting Le Bagatelle

Also known as the workman setting the Italian book

An unnamed printing-office worker who sets the Spanish translation of Le Bagatelle in type.

Doctor Cristóbal de Figueroa

Also known as Cristóbal de Figueroa

A translator praised by Don Quixote for his Spanish version of Pastor Fido, which he says is nearly indistinguishable from the original.

Don Juan de Jáuregui

Also known as Juan de Jáuregui

A translator praised by Don Quixote for his Spanish version of Aminta, which he says is nearly indistinguishable from the original.

the workmen in the Barcelona printing office

Also known as the printers

Unnamed workers who draw sheets, set type, correct copy, and revise proofs in the Barcelona printing office.

the author of Light of the Soul

Also known as the author of the devotional book

An unnamed author of a devotional book being corrected in the Barcelona printing office. Don Quixote approves of printing books that bring light to sinners.

the two peasants disputing a race wager

Also known as the fat man and his thin neighbour

Two unnamed villagers who wager on a race of one hundred paces, with equal total weights required. Sancho rules that the heavier man should lose eleven stone before they race.

the fat challenger in the village wager

Also known as the fat man

An unnamed villager weighing twenty stone who challenges a nine-stone neighbour to race with equal weights. Sancho rules that he must lose eleven stone to make the weights equal.

the thin man in the village wager

Also known as the thin neighbour

An unnamed villager weighing nine stone who is challenged to race by a twenty-stone neighbour. Sancho rules that the heavier challenger must reduce his weight rather than burden the thin man with iron.

the peasant who presents the wager

Also known as the peasant

An unnamed villager who asks Don Quixote and Sancho to decide how to settle the race wager between the fat man and his thin neighbour.

the villagers gathered at the inn

Also known as the people at the door of the inn

Unnamed villagers gathered for a holiday who hear Sancho’s judgment and marvel at his cleverness and Don Quixote’s strange appearance.

the squire of Samson Carrasco

Also known as Samson’s servant

An unnamed servant who accompanies Samson Carrasco as he rides away after the combat and helps remove his armour at the hostel.

the viceroy’s attendants

Also known as the attendants

Unnamed members of the viceroy’s party who come aboard the galley with him.

the people of Barcelona watching the combat

Also known as the people who see the Knight of the White Moon

Unnamed city residents who see the Knight of the White Moon speaking with Don Quixote and alert the viceroy.

the innkeeper of the hostel where Carrasco rests

Also known as the host

An unnamed hostel keeper in Barcelona whose lodging the Knight of the White Moon enters after the combat.

the foot courier carrying letters to the viceroy

Also known as the courier

An unnamed messenger on foot carrying a packet of letters from the duke to the viceroy. He is Tosilos, the duke’s lacquey.

the two gentlemen travelling with Don Quixote and Sancho

Also known as Don Antonio’s two servants

Two unnamed attendants supplied by Don Antonio who accompany Don Quixote and Sancho on a walk through Barcelona.

the friends of Don Antonio’s wife at the dance

Also known as the ladies’ party

Unnamed women invited by Don Antonio’s wife to a dance held in honour of Don Quixote.

the reader who comments on Sancho’s judgment

Also known as one of the peasants at the inn

An unnamed villager who praises Sancho’s ruling as wise and doubts the fat challenger will give up any of his weight.

the villager who suggests spending the wager on wine

Also known as another peasant

An unnamed villager who suggests cancelling the race and spending half the wager on wine.

the duke’s majordomo

Also known as the majordomo

A witty household officer who impersonated Countess Trifaldi and conducted Sancho to the staged governorship at Barataria. He gave Sancho a purse containing two hundred gold crowns before Sancho left the Duke’s castle.

the men carrying the devotional images

Also known as the labourers carrying the images

About a dozen unnamed men dressed as labourers, transporting costly carved images for a village altarpiece. They show the images to Don Quixote and then continue on their way.

Saint George

Also known as Don Saint George

A saint depicted on horseback slaying a serpent. Don Quixote praises him as a knight of heaven and defender of maidens.

Saint Martin

Also known as Don Saint Martin

A saint depicted dividing his cloak with a beggar. Don Quixote describes him as generous and charitable.

Saint James the Moorslayer

Also known as Santiago · the patron saint of the Spains · the knight of the Red Cross

A patron saint of Spain depicted on horseback trampling Moors. Don Quixote says Spaniards invoke him as their defender in battles.

Saint Paul

Also known as Paul

A saint depicted falling from his horse during his conversion. Don Quixote calls him a former enemy of the Church and a great champion of it after his conversion.

Jesus Christ

Also known as Christ

Don Quixote cites Jesus Christ as the teacher and master of Saint Paul.

Scipio

Also known as Scipio Africanus

A Roman general who, according to Don Quixote, turned a stumble on landing in Africa into a confident declaration that he would conquer it.

Mendoza

Also known as another Mendoza

A person invoked by Don Quixote as an example of someone who treats spilled salt as an omen of misfortune.

Love

Also known as the god of Love · the little blind urchin

A personified figure Sancho describes as a blind, arrow-bearing urchin who can strike any heart. Don Quixote says love banishes fear and shame when it possesses a heart.

Actaeon

A mythic figure whom Don Quixote compares himself to when describing how captivated he is by the shepherdess’s beauty.

the first shepherdess

Also known as the shepherdess who explains the gathering

An unnamed young woman dressed as a richly dressed shepherdess for a pastoral holiday. She explains that the party has set nets to catch birds and invites Don Quixote and Sancho to join them.

the second shepherdess

Also known as the shepherdess who recognizes Don Quixote

An unnamed young woman dressed as a shepherdess who recognizes Don Quixote and Sancho from their published history and urges her companion to invite them to stay.

the brother of one of the shepherdesses

Also known as the gay shepherd

An unnamed young man dressed as a shepherd and brother of one of the two shepherdesses. After learning that Don Quixote and Sancho have arrived, he welcomes them and invites them to the tents.

the pastoral gathering

Also known as the friends and relations dressed as shepherds and shepherdesses

More than thirty unnamed people from a nearby village who stage a pastoral holiday in the countryside. They welcome Don Quixote and Sancho, host them at their tents, and follow Don Quixote to see his challenge.

Garcilasso

Also known as Garcilasso de la Vega

A famous poet whose eclogue the pastoral gathering has prepared to perform.

Camoens

Also known as the most excellent Camoens

A celebrated Portuguese poet whose eclogue, in Portuguese, the pastoral gathering has prepared to perform.

the birds caught in the nets

Also known as the silly little birds

Small birds caught in the green nets the pastoral party had spread among the trees.

the herdsman warning Don Quixote

Also known as the man in advance of the troop

An unnamed herdsman riding ahead of the group driving cattle toward a village. He warns Don Quixote to get out of the way of the bulls.

the cattle drivers

Also known as the herdsmen

Unnamed herdsmen and others driving a herd of bulls and bullocks toward a village for the next day’s bull-running. The herd knocks Don Quixote, Sancho, Rocinante, and Dapple to the ground.

the bulls and bullocks

Also known as the drove

A herd of fierce bulls and tame bullocks being driven toward a village. They trample Don Quixote, Sancho, Rocinante, and Dapple as they pass.

the landlord of the inn after the bull incident

Also known as the innkeeper

An unnamed innkeeper who offers Don Quixote and Sancho lodging and a choice of supper, though his provisions are limited. Sancho pays him and advises him either to promise less or stock the inn better.

Don Jeronimo

Also known as Señor Don Jeronimo

A gentleman staying at the inn who is reading a false continuation of Don Quixote’s history with Don Juan. He recognizes the real Don Quixote and Sancho, criticizes the false book, and invites them to supper.

Don Juan

Also known as Señor Don Juan

A gentleman staying at the inn with Don Jeronimo. He reads and discusses a false continuation of Don Quixote’s history, then invites Don Quixote to supper and advises him to travel to Barcelona instead of Saragossa.

the anonymous author of the second Don Quixote

Also known as the author of the false Second Part · the Aragonese author · the new historian · the author of this book

An unnamed Aragonese writer who published a false continuation of Don Quixote’s history. Don Quixote and Sancho condemn its inaccurate account of them, including its false name for Sancho’s wife.

the landlord sharing supper with Sancho

Also known as the innkeeper

An unnamed innkeeper who joins Sancho for supper at the inn while Don Quixote dines with Don Juan and Don Jeronimo.

the outlaws hanged in the trees

Also known as the dead freebooters

Unnamed robbers whose bodies hang from trees near Barcelona, where local authorities have hanged them in groups.

Roque Guinart

Also known as the great Roque

A Catalan bandit captain with a reputation for mercy and strict fairness in distributing spoils. He encounters Don Quixote and Sancho, protects them from his men, helps Claudia Jeronima, and later escorts them toward Barcelona.

the squires of Roque Guinart’s band

Also known as the highwaymen · the robbers

Unnamed members of Roque Guinart’s band, called squires in their trade. They rob travellers, but obey Roque’s orders and receive an equitable share of their band’s spoils.

Claudia Jeronima

Also known as Claudia

The daughter of Simon Forte and a friend of Roque Guinart. Believing Don Vicente Torrellas has betrayed her and plans to marry another woman, she shoots him; when she learns he had not betrayed her, he dies in her arms. She resolves to enter a monastery.

Simon Forte

Also known as Claudia Jeronima’s father

An unnamed-in-the-story man identified as Claudia Jeronima’s father and Roque Guinart’s friend. Claudia fears Don Vicente’s relatives may seek vengeance against him.

Clauquel Torrellas

Also known as Torrellas

An enemy of Simon Forte and Roque Guinart, and father of Don Vicente Torrellas.

Don Vicente Torrellas

Also known as Don Vicente

The son of Clauquel Torrellas and Claudia Jeronima’s beloved. Claudia shoots him after wrongly believing he has broken his promise and is about to marry Leonora; he denies betraying her and dies of his wounds.

Leonora

Also known as the daughter of the rich Balvastro

An unnamed-in-the-story young woman whom Claudia believes Don Vicente is about to marry. Don Vicente denies that the reported wedding is true.

Balvastro

Also known as the rich Balvastro

A wealthy man identified as Leonora’s father.

the servants of Don Vicente

Also known as Don Vicente’s servants

Unnamed attendants who carry the wounded Don Vicente and later take his body to his father’s village for burial.

the father of Don Vicente

Also known as Don Vicente’s father

An unnamed man whose village is near the place where Don Vicente dies. Roque Guinart directs Don Vicente’s servants to take the body there for burial.

the friend of Roque Guinart in Barcelona

Also known as Roque’s friend

An unnamed friend in Barcelona whom Roque informs by letter that Don Quixote and Sancho are coming.

the Niarros

An unnamed faction in Barcelona, identified as friends of Roque Guinart, whom he asks to be told of Don Quixote’s arrival.

the Cadells

An unnamed faction opposed to Roque Guinart, whom he says he wishes could be denied the amusement of seeing Don Quixote and Sancho.

the sentinels of Roque Guinart’s band

Also known as the squires posted as sentinels

Unnamed members of Roque’s band who watch the roads and report travellers to their captain.

the two Spanish infantry captains

Also known as the captains

Two unnamed captains travelling from Naples to Barcelona to join galleys bound for Sicily. Roque Guinart takes sixty crowns from them for his band and lets them continue with a safe-conduct.

the two pilgrims travelling to Rome

Also known as the pilgrims

Two unnamed pilgrims travelling to Rome with about sixty reals between them. Roque Guinart lets them keep most of their money and gives them ten crowns.

Doña Guiomar de Quiñones

Also known as the regent’s lady · the wife of the regent of the Vicaria at Naples

The wife of the regent of the Vicaria at Naples, travelling by coach with her young daughter and attendants. Roque Guinart takes eighty crowns from her party and then lets them proceed with a safe-conduct.

the daughter of Doña Guiomar de Quiñones

Also known as Doña Guiomar’s little daughter

An unnamed young girl travelling in the coach with her mother, Doña Guiomar de Quiñones.

the handmaid of Doña Guiomar de Quiñones

Also known as the handmaid

An unnamed attendant travelling with Doña Guiomar de Quiñones and her daughter.

the duenna of Doña Guiomar de Quiñones

Also known as the duenna

An unnamed attendant travelling with Doña Guiomar de Quiñones and her daughter.

the six servants accompanying Doña Guiomar

Also known as the servants

Unnamed attendants travelling with Doña Guiomar de Quiñones’s coach.

the muleteers accompanying the captains

Also known as the couple of muleteers

Two unnamed muleteers travelling with the Spanish infantry captains.

the Barcelona cavalier who welcomes Don Quixote

Also known as the gentleman to whom Roque sent word

An unnamed gentleman in Barcelona, a friend of Roque Guinart, who welcomes Don Quixote and leads him into the city.

the horsemen in livery

Also known as the mounted horsemen

Unnamed riders who welcome Don Quixote and Sancho at Barcelona’s shore and escort them into the city.

the boys who prank Don Quixote and Sancho

Also known as the two audacious urchins

Two unnamed boys in Barcelona who put furze under Rocinante’s and Dapple’s tails, causing both animals to buck and throw their riders.

the stall-keeper selling hazel nuts

Also known as the market-woman

An unnamed market seller whom Sancho catches mixing old, empty, rotten hazelnuts with new ones. He confiscates the nuts for the charity-school and bars her from the market for a fortnight.

the children of the charity-school

Children who are to receive the hazelnuts Sancho confiscates from the stall-keeper.

the alguacil of the poor

An unnamed official Sancho creates to examine people seeking alms and distinguish genuine poverty from feigned disability.

the market-women

Market sellers whom Sancho describes as shameless and impudent, based on his experience in several towns.

the blind men who sing of miracles

Also known as the blind men

Unnamed singers whose verses about miracles Sancho suspects are often fabricated; his ordinance requires them to provide evidence that a miracle is true.

the young man who promised to marry Doña Rodriguez’s daughter

Also known as the wealthy farmer’s son who promised to marry Doña Rodriguez’s daughter

An unnamed wealthy farmer’s son who seduced Doña Rodriguez’s daughter after promising marriage. He has fled to Flanders to avoid having Doña Rodriguez as a mother-in-law, so the duke arranges for Tosilos to take his place in the combat.

the daughter of Doña Rodriguez

Also known as Doña Rodriguez’s daughter · the duenna’s daughter

Doña Rodriguez’s daughter, whom a wealthy farmer’s son seduced after promising to marry her. She places her claim in Don Quixote’s hands, and, when Tosilos offers to marry her, says she would rather be a lacquey’s lawful wife than a gentleman’s deceived mistress.

the master of the ceremonies

Also known as the marshal of the field

An unnamed official who inspects the combat ground, arranges the contestants’ positions, and hears Tosilos declare himself vanquished and willing to marry Doña Rodriguez’s daughter.

the six foreign pilgrims

Also known as the pilgrims

Six foreign men who beg for alms while travelling through Spain to visit shrines. They share food and wine with Sancho; one recognizes him as Ricote’s neighbour.

the wife of Ricote

Also known as Francisca Ricota · Ricota’s mother

Ricote’s wife, a Catholic Christian who left Spain with their daughter and her brother Juan Tiopieyo and is now in Algiers.

Juan Tiopieyo

Also known as Ricote’s wife’s brother

Ricote’s brother-in-law, a Muslim who took Ricote’s wife and daughter to Algiers after their expulsion from Spain.

Don Pedro Gregorio

Also known as the rich young heir

A wealthy young heir from Ricote’s village who is said to have loved Ricote’s daughter. Sancho reports that he disappeared after she left Spain, and villagers suspect he went after her.

the student who criticizes Sancho

Also known as the student

An unnamed student who sees Sancho rescued from the pit and remarks that bad governors should emerge from office pale, hungry, and penniless.

the people carrying on the joke against Sancho

Also known as the jokers

Unnamed members of the Duke’s household who stage a mock attack on Barataria to frighten Sancho into resigning. They strap shields around him and trample and strike him while he lies helpless.

the man who gives orders from atop Sancho

An unnamed participant in the mock attack who stands on Sancho’s shields and shouts instructions for defending the town.

the charity-school

A school for poor children that receives the hazelnuts Sancho confiscates from the market seller.

the farmer from Miguelturra

Also known as the farmer

A widower from Miguelturra whose son is studying to become a bachelor. He asks Sancho for a letter of recommendation and money to help arrange his son’s marriage to Clara Perlerina; the request is a prank arranged by the duke’s majordomo.

the farmer’s younger son

Also known as the younger student

The farmer from Miguelturra’s son, studying to become a bachelor. He has fallen in love with Clara Perlerina, and his father seeks Sancho’s help to arrange their marriage.

Clara Perlerina

The daughter of Andres Perlerino, a wealthy farmer whose family is known for paralysis. The farmer from Miguelturra says his bachelor son wants to marry her.

Andres Perlerino

A very wealthy farmer and father of Clara Perlerina. The farmer from Miguelturra asks Sancho for a letter recommending that Andres allow his daughter to marry the farmer’s son.

the other duenna who sleeps with Doña Rodriguez

Also known as the tattling duenna

An unnamed duenna who secretly follows Doña Rodriguez to Don Quixote’s room and reports her visit to the Duchess.

the Duchess’s two attackers

Also known as the Duchess and Altisidora

The Duchess and Altisidora burst into Don Quixote’s room after overhearing Doña Rodriguez speak about the Duchess. They flog Doña Rodriguez and pinch Don Quixote in revenge.

the page who represents Dulcinea

Also known as the page · the page sent to Teresa Panza

A quick-witted page who played Dulcinea in the staged procession. The Duchess sends him to Teresa Panza with letters and gifts from Sancho and the Duchess.

Doña Rodriguez’s husband

Also known as the squire

An unnamed esquire who married Doña Rodriguez and served a lady named Doña Casilda. He died after being dismissed from service, which Rodriguez attributes to the distress of the dismissal.

Doña Casilda

Also known as Doña Rodriguez’s former mistress

The lady whom Doña Rodriguez served in Madrid before joining the Duchess’s household. She dismissed Rodriguez’s husband after a public incident involving his excessive deference to a court alcalde.

the alcalde of the Court

Also known as the alcalde

An unnamed court official who meets Doña Casilda and Doña Rodriguez’s husband in a narrow Madrid street. He politely tells the husband to proceed with his lady.

the two alguacils accompanying the alcalde

Also known as the alguacils

Two unnamed officers accompanying the Court’s alcalde when he meets Doña Casilda and her husband.

the Duchess’s damsels

Also known as the damsels

Unnamed women in the Duchess’s household, among whom Doña Rodriguez says her daughter is more accomplished and beautiful than any other, including Altisidora.

the chronicler of Sancho’s deeds

Also known as the chronicler

An unnamed recorder who accompanies Sancho on his nighttime round of Barataria to document his actions.

the two men fighting in the street

Also known as the combatants

Two unnamed men found fighting during Sancho’s nighttime round. One is a gambling winner; the other is an idle onlooker who demands a larger reward for helping prevent cheating.

the gambling winner

Also known as the winner

An unnamed man who has won more than a thousand reals at a gambling house. Sancho orders him to pay the onlooker and the poor prisoners.

the idle gambling-house onlooker

Also known as the assailant

An unnamed man who says he has no profession or property and expects gamblers to pay him for observing their games and backing up cheating. Sancho orders him to leave Barataria.

the notary who comments on the gambling houses

Also known as one of the notaries

An unnamed notary accompanying Sancho’s party. He explains that Sancho cannot close the gambling house owned by a great man and distinguishes it from smaller houses where cheating is common.

the young weaver

Also known as the youth

An unnamed young man who works as a weaver and is caught running from Sancho’s officers. His joke about whether Sancho can force him to sleep persuades Sancho to let him go.

the two tipstaffs who bring the disguised girl

Also known as the tipstaffs

Two unnamed officers who bring a young woman dressed as a man before Sancho, believing her to be a young man.

the daughter of Diego de la Llana

Also known as the disguised girl · the young woman in men’s clothes

An unnamed young woman of about sixteen, daughter of Diego de la Llana. Kept secluded since her mother’s death, she dresses as her brother and sneaks out to see the town; Sancho has her escorted home.

Diego de la Llana

A wealthy, respected gentleman of Barataria and father of a daughter and a son. Since his wife died, he has kept his daughter secluded at home.

the son of Diego de la Llana

Also known as the brother of Diego de la Llana’s daughter · the young man dressed as a woman

An unnamed young man, one year younger than Diego de la Llana’s daughter. At her request, he dresses as a woman and takes her out to see the town; officers catch him when he runs from Sancho’s party.

the wool-farmer Pedro Perez

Also known as Pedro Perez Mazorca

A wool-farmer who frequently visits Diego de la Llana’s home. Diego’s daughter says she used his name as a false reference to avoid naming her own father.

the woman-servant who opens Diego de la Llana’s door

Also known as the waiting woman-servant

An unnamed servant who is waiting at Diego de la Llana’s house and lets his son and daughter back inside after their nighttime outing.

the stranger who presents the bridge riddle

Also known as the querist · the messenger

An unnamed visitor who brings Sancho a hypothetical legal puzzle about a man who swears he is going to die on a gallows. He asks Sancho to advise four judges on how to apply their law.

the four judges at the bridge

Also known as the judges

Four unnamed judges who administer a law requiring travellers to swear where they are going. They are presented with the paradox of how to treat a man who swears he is going to die on the gallows.

the young acolyte who writes Teresa’s letters

Also known as the acolyte

An unnamed young church acolyte who can write. Teresa gives him a cake and eggs to write her replies to Sancho and the Duchess.

the farmer’s elder son

Also known as the elder student

The farmer from Miguelturra’s elder son, studying to become a licentiate. The farmer’s account distinguishes him from the younger son who is courting Clara Perlerina.

Doctor Pedro Recio de Aguero

Also known as Doctor Pedro Recio de Malaguero · Doctor Pedro Recio · the physician of Barataria · Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera · Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera

A physician from Tirteafuera appointed to protect Sancho’s health. He repeatedly restricts Sancho’s food, though he finally permits him to eat supper.

Countess Trifaldi

Also known as the distressed duenna · the Trifaldi

A duenna who sought Don Quixote’s help at the Duke’s estate. The Duke’s majordomo played her in the staged adventure; Sancho recognizes the majordomo’s resemblance to her.

the history’s interpreter

Also known as the interpreter

An unnamed interpreter who translates Cide Hamete’s history and, according to the narrator, does not render Hamete’s complaint about the story’s narrow subject matter.

the four damsels offered to Don Quixote

Also known as the Duchess’s four damsels

Four unnamed attendants whom the Duchess offers to wait upon Don Quixote. He refuses their service to protect his fidelity to Dulcinea.

Emerencia

An unnamed companion of Altisidora who encourages her to sing to Don Quixote and helps stage the appearance of her lovesickness.

the cats let into Don Quixote’s chamber

Also known as the cats

A group of cats released into Don Quixote’s chamber during a prank involving bells. One cat clings to his face and injures him before the Duke pulls it away.

the cat that attacks Don Quixote

Also known as the cat

A cat that gets into Don Quixote’s chamber during the bell prank and clings to his face, injuring him. The Duke pulls it off and throws it out the window.

the Duke’s household audience

Also known as the people of the castle · nearly the whole household

Unnamed members of the household who listen to Don Quixote’s serenade and witness the bell-and-cat prank.

Sancho’s attendants on the journey to Barataria

Also known as Sancho’s large following

Unnamed members of the Duke’s household who accompany Sancho to the village chosen for his mock island government.

the Barataria municipality

Also known as the municipality

Unnamed town officials who greet Sancho, present him with the town keys, and acknowledge him as governor of Barataria.

the inhabitants of Barataria

Also known as the islanders · the people

The unnamed residents of Barataria, who welcome Sancho with bells and public celebration. Many are in on the Duke and Duchess’s joke.

the two old men in Sancho’s court

Also known as the old men

Two unnamed men who bring a dispute over a loan of ten gold crowns before Sancho. One conceals the money in his cane; Sancho exposes the trick and awards the cane to the lender.

the old man who lent the crowns

Also known as the creditor · the old man without a stick

An unnamed man who says he lent ten gold crowns to another old man and asks Sancho to resolve the disputed debt. Sancho finds the coins hidden inside the borrower’s cane.

the old man who borrowed the crowns

Also known as the debtor · the old man with the stick

An unnamed borrower who admits taking ten gold crowns but falsely swears he repaid them. He hides the coins inside his cane, which Sancho has broken open.

the woman who accuses the cattle dealer

Also known as the complainant · the unforced mistress of force

An unnamed woman who accuses a traveling pig dealer of assault and takes his purse when Sancho orders him to give it to her. Sancho sees that she can defend the purse forcefully and sends her away with a warning.

the pig dealer

Also known as the cattle dealer · the man dressed like a well-to-do cattle dealer

An unnamed traveling pig seller who says he paid a woman fairly but was brought before Sancho by force. Sancho tests her claim by ordering him to recover his purse, then returns the money to him.

the tailor

Also known as the passed tailor

An unnamed tailor who disputes with a farm labourer over a piece of cloth and five tiny caps. Sancho rules that the tailor loses his fee, the labourer loses the cloth, and the caps go to the prisoners.

the farm labourer in the cap dispute

Also known as the labourer

An unnamed man who asks a tailor to make as many caps as possible from a piece of cloth, then disputes the tailor’s fee. Sancho divides the loss between him and the tailor.

the prisoners in Barataria’s gaol

Also known as the prisoners

Unnamed prisoners who are awarded the five caps made in the tailor’s dispute.

the four pages at Sancho’s dinner

Also known as the pages

Four unnamed attendants who present Sancho with water for his hands when he enters the palace dining chamber.

the physician who controls Sancho’s meals

Also known as the doctor

An unnamed physician appointed to serve Barataria’s governors. He repeatedly has Sancho’s dishes removed as supposedly harmful and is threatened with the lock-up after Sancho suspects him of trying to starve him.

the carver at Sancho’s dinner

Also known as the head carver · the carver

An unnamed attendant who serves dishes at Sancho’s dinner and removes them when the physician orders. He alerts the company to the Duke’s courier and warns Sancho that the meal came from nuns.

the student who says grace

Also known as the student

An unnamed person who says grace before Sancho’s dinner.

Hippocrates

Also known as the master Hippocrates

An ancient physician cited by Doctor Pedro Recio to justify withholding roast partridge from Sancho.

the secretary of Barataria

Also known as the secretary · the Biscayan

An unnamed Biscayan who can read and write and serves as Sancho’s secretary. He reads the Duke’s warning letter aloud and is asked to send Sancho’s reply.

the courier from the Duke

Also known as the courier

An unnamed messenger who arrives sweating and flurried with a warning letter from the Duke for Sancho.

the four disguised persons said to threaten Sancho

Also known as the four persons in disguise · the assassins

Four unnamed people whom the Duke’s letter claims have entered Barataria in disguise to kill Sancho. Their alleged presence is part of the staged threat surrounding his governorship.

the enemies of the Duke and Barataria

Also known as the enemies of mine and of the island

Unnamed supposed attackers who, according to the Duke’s letter, plan to assault Barataria at night.

the farmer’s wife

Also known as the farmer’s deceased wife

An unnamed woman who died while pregnant after, according to her husband, a doctor gave her a purge. Her death left the farmer a widower.

the doctor who treated the farmer’s wife

Also known as the bad doctor

An unnamed physician whom the farmer blames for his wife’s death, saying the doctor gave her a purge while she was pregnant.

the physician who killed the farmer’s wife

Also known as the bad doctor

An unnamed physician whom the farmer blames for his wife’s death, saying the doctor gave her a purge while she was pregnant.

the plague-of-a-doctor in Sancho’s village

Also known as the curate of Sancho’s village

An unnamed village curate whose account of a similar case helps Sancho recognize how the borrower concealed the ten crowns inside his cane.

Phœbus

Also known as the sun

The personified sun, invoked by the narrator at the start of the account of Sancho’s government.

Julius Caesar

Also known as Julius Cæsar

The Roman ruler cited by Don Quixote in advice about attire; some people, he says, considered deliberate slovenliness part of Caesar’s craft.

Dulcinea del Toboso

Also known as Dulcinea · Aldonza Lorenzo

The lady Don Quixote loves, based on Aldonza Lorenzo. Don Quixote invokes his constancy to her when rejecting Altisidora’s advances.

the nymph in the triumphal car

Also known as the maiden

An unnamed young woman seated on a throne in the staged procession, veiled in silver and gold. She reveals herself as the page playing Dulcinea, though Sancho is addressed as if she were the real lady.

Merlin

Also known as the French enchanter Merlin · the sage Merlin

An enchanter said to have enchanted Montesinos, Durandarte, Belerma, Guadiana, Ruidera, and others. In the duke’s staged spectacle, the duke’s majordomo impersonates him and declares that Sancho’s lashes will disenchant Dulcinea.

the devil disguised as a courier

Also known as the courier · the postillion

An unnamed performer dressed as a demon who announces that enchanters are bringing Dulcinea and Montesinos to Don Quixote. Merlin later says he sent the courier with a message from himself, not Montesinos.

Montesinos

Also known as the cousin Montesinos · Señor Don Montesinos · the gallant Frenchman Montesinos

An enchanted knight who appears to Don Quixote in the Cave of Montesinos and serves as its warden. The staged courier’s message falsely says he is coming to discuss Dulcinea’s disenchantment; Merlin says Montesinos is still waiting to be disenchanted himself.

the author of the history’s translator

Also known as the translator of this great history · the translator

An unnamed translator of Cide Hamete Benengeli’s history. He explains Hamete’s oath by noting that Hamete was a Moor and intended to affirm the truth of his account.

the distressed duenna’s twelve attendants

Also known as the twelve duennas · the duennas

Twelve unnamed women in the Countess Trifaldi’s service who join her at the duke’s estate. In her account, Malambruno gives them beards as punishment; they disappear during the staged Clavileño adventure.

Trifaldin of the White Beard

Also known as the squire to the Countess Trifaldi · squire Trifaldin

An unnamed performer disguised as the enormous, white-bearded squire of Countess Trifaldi. He announces her arrival and leads her by the hand into the garden.

Doña Rodriguez

Also known as Doña Rodriguez de Grijalba · the distressed or afflicted duenna · the duenna

The Duchess’s duenna, who defends duennas against Sancho’s insults and argues that they have virtues like other women.

Don Clavijo

Also known as the private gentleman at the court of Kandy

A gentleman at the court of Kandy who, according to Countess Trifaldi’s tale, wins her help in courting Princess Antonomasia and marries her. Malambruno turns him into a metal crocodile.

Princess Antonomasia

Also known as the Princess Antonomasia

The intelligent and beautiful heir to the kingdom of Kandy, daughter of Queen Doña Maguncia. With Countess Trifaldi’s help, she marries Don Clavijo; Malambruno transforms her into a brass ape.

Queen Doña Maguncia

Also known as Queen Maguncia

The widowed queen of Kandy and mother of Princess Antonomasia. She dies after the Vicar rules that Antonomasia must marry Don Clavijo.

King Archipiela

Also known as the king of Kandy

The late husband of Queen Doña Maguncia and father of Princess Antonomasia, mentioned in Countess Trifaldi’s account.

Malambruno

Also known as the giant Malambruno · the enchanter Malambruno

A cruel enchanter and first cousin of Queen Maguncia. In Countess Trifaldi’s story, he transforms Don Clavijo into a metal crocodile, Antonomasia into a brass ape, and the palace duennas by giving them beards; he sends the wooden horse Clavileño for Don Quixote and Sancho.

the Vicar of Kandy

Also known as the Vicar

An unnamed religious official who hears the marriage case of Princess Antonomasia and Don Clavijo and rules in Don Clavijo’s favour.

the court alguacil of Kandy

Also known as the alguacil

An unnamed court officer into whose custody the Vicar orders Princess Antonomasia after hearing her confession.

the four wild men in the dance

Also known as the wild men

Four performers dressed in ivy who carry the wooden horse Clavileño into the garden for Don Quixote and Sancho to ride.

Clavileño

Also known as Clavileño the Swift

A wooden horse with a peg for a bridle, supposedly made by Merlin and once ridden by Pierres and Magalona. The duke’s party rigs it with effects to make Don Quixote and Sancho believe they fly; it explodes with them aboard.

Pierres

Also known as the valiant Pierres

A legendary knight who, according to Countess Trifaldi, rode Clavileño and carried off the fair Magalona.

Magalona

Also known as the fair Magalona

A lady carried through the air on Clavileño by Pierres, according to Countess Trifaldi’s story.

the goats Sancho claims to see in the heavens

Also known as the seven goats

Seven goats that Sancho claims he saw during the staged ride. He says they were six different colours and that he dismounted from Clavileño to spend time among them.

the seven goats of the celestial region

Also known as the seven goats

Seven goats said by Sancho to be in the heavens. Don Quixote mentions them while disputing Sancho’s account of the ride.

the licentiate Torralva

Also known as the licentiate

A man from a tale Don Quixote recalls who supposedly flew through the air on a stick with his eyes shut, escorted by devils, and later described what he had witnessed.

Bellerophon

The legendary rider of Pegasus, named by Countess Trifaldi when listing famous horses.

Pegasus

Bellerophon’s famous horse, mentioned in Countess Trifaldi’s list of horses.

Bucephalus

Alexander the Great’s horse, named by Countess Trifaldi when listing famous horses.

Brigliador

The horse of Orlando Furioso, named by Countess Trifaldi when listing famous horses.

Bayard

The horse of Reinaldos of Montalvan, named by Countess Trifaldi when listing famous horses.

Bootes

A name said to belong to one of the horses of the sun, mentioned by Countess Trifaldi.

Peritoa

A name said to belong to one of the horses of the sun, mentioned by Countess Trifaldi.

Orelia

The horse ridden by Rodrigo, the last king of the Goths, to the battle where he lost his life and kingdom, according to Countess Trifaldi.

Rodrigo

Also known as the last king of the Goths

The last Gothic king, mentioned as the rider of Orelia in Countess Trifaldi’s list of famous horses.

Virgil

The Latin poet cited by Don Quixote when he recalls the wooden horse of Troy.

the duke’s pages

Also known as the three pages

Three unnamed pages who carry the three points of Countess Trifaldi’s skirt as she enters the garden.

the women who remove facial down

Also known as the women who remove down

Unnamed women in Kandy who go house to house removing facial down, trimming eyebrows, and making cosmetics, according to one of the duennas.

the duke and duchess’s household audience

Also known as the bystanders · all who stood by

Unnamed people watching the staged Clavileño adventure. They use wind and heat effects, then fall to the ground as if fainted when the horse explodes.

the damsels who attend Don Quixote

Also known as the six damsels · the damsels

Unnamed attendants instructed by the duke and duchess to remove Don Quixote’s armour and treat him like a knight-errant. Some also stage a beard-washing prank at dinner.

the grave ecclesiastic of the duke’s household

Also known as the grave churchman · the ecclesiastic · the churchman

An unnamed cleric who helps rule the duke’s household. He scolds Sancho for his long-winded tale, then rebukes the duke and Don Quixote for encouraging the knight’s delusions.

the gentleman in Sancho’s village

Also known as the rich gentleman of Sancho’s village · one of the Alamos of Medina del Campo

A wealthy, high-ranking villager who once invited a poor labourer to dinner and forced him to take the head of the table. Sancho tells this story as an example of courtesy between host and guest.

Doña Mencia de Quiñones

The wife of the wealthy gentleman in Sancho’s village and daughter of Don Alonso de Marañon.

Don Alonso de Marañon

Also known as the Knight of the Order of Santiago

The father of Doña Mencia de Quiñones, identified as a knight of the Order of Santiago who drowned at the Herradura.

Tomasillo the scapegrace

Also known as Tomasillo

The son of Balbastro the smith, whom Sancho recalls as having been wounded in a quarrel in his village involving Don Quixote.

Balbastro the smith

The father of Tomasillo, mentioned by Sancho in recounting a past village quarrel.

the poor but respectable labourer

Also known as the labourer

An unnamed labourer invited to dinner by a wealthy gentleman in Sancho’s village. He and his host insist that the other take the head of the table until the host forces him to sit.

the seneschal

An unnamed senior servant of the duke’s household. He brings Don Quixote to dinner and later takes Sancho to eat with the household servants.

the duke’s twelve pages

Also known as the twelve pages

Unnamed pages who accompany the seneschal in conducting Don Quixote to dinner.

the servants who try to wash Sancho

Also known as the kitchen-boys · the underlings · the promoters of cleanliness

Unnamed kitchen servants who pursue Sancho with a trough of dirty water and attempt to wash his beard. The duchess orders them to stop.

the barber damsel

Also known as the damsel with the basin

An unnamed attendant who soaps Don Quixote’s face and beard as part of a staged washing prank.

Lirgandeo

Also known as the sage Lirgandeo

A sage presented in a staged procession at the duke’s estate. An old man riding on a candle-lit cart announces his name.

Alquife

Also known as the sage Alquife

A sage presented in a staged procession at the duke’s estate. An old man on a cart calls himself Alquife and claims friendship with Urganda the Unknown.

Archelaus

Also known as the enchanter Archelaus

A figure presented in a staged procession at the duke’s estate, who claims to be the mortal enemy of Amadis of Gaul and his kindred.

the figure of Death in the procession

Also known as Death · the living death

An unnamed performer in a black robe and veil who reveals a skeletal costume and recites Merlin’s prophecy about Dulcinea’s disenchantment.

the penitents in the staged procession

Also known as the twelve penitents · the six mounted penitents

Unnamed white-robed participants who carry lighted candles and accompany the triumphal car in the duke and duchess’s staged spectacle.

the demons leading the candle-lit carts

Also known as the two hideous demons

Two unnamed performers in frightening costumes who lead the carts carrying the staged sages.

the man who explains that Favila was a Gothic king

Don Quixote, who identifies Favila as a Gothic king devoured by a bear while hunting.

Favila

A Gothic king said by Don Quixote to have been devoured by a bear while hunting.

the huge boar

Also known as the tusked boar

A large wild boar that charges the hunting party and is killed by their spears.

the oxen drawing the carts

Also known as the four oxen

Four oxen that draw one of the staged carts through the wood, with lighted tapers fixed to their horns.

the six grey mules

Six mules that draw the triumphal car carrying the veiled young woman in the staged procession.

Oriana

Also known as the Lady Oriana

Amadis of Gaul’s beloved, whose name the duke mentions among the high-born ladies of romance.

Queen Madasima

Also known as Queen Majimasa

An illustrious queen whom the duke names among the high-born women in romance.

Alastrajarea

Also known as Alastrajareas

A high-born lady of romance named by the duke as an example of the lineage Dulcinea supposedly lacks.

Terra

The personified Earth, named as the mother of the giant Antaeus in Don Quixote’s account.

Antæus

Also known as Antaeus

A fierce giant said by Don Quixote to be the son of Terra and to have been strangled by Hercules.

Hercules

The hero whom Don Quixote says strangled the giant Antaeus.

the Cid Ruy Diaz

Also known as the Cid

A renowned knight whom the duchess cites as the standard of dignity when inviting Sancho to sit.

King Rodrigo

Also known as Roderick

A king in an old ballad whom Doña Rodriguez says was buried alive among reptiles, which gnawed at him for his sins.

Wamba

Also known as Wamba the husbandman

A husbandman said by Sancho to have been chosen to become king of Spain.

Michael Verino

Also known as Michael Verinus

A writer whose sayings the duchess compares to Sancho’s proverbs.

the Greek Commander

A figure whose numerous maxims are compared by the duchess with Sancho’s many proverbs.

Parrhasius

A painter whose skill Don Quixote says would be needed to portray Dulcinea.

Timantes

A painter whose skill Don Quixote says would be needed to portray Dulcinea.

Apelles

A painter whose skill Don Quixote says would be needed to portray Dulcinea.

Lysippus

A sculptor whose skill Don Quixote says would be needed to represent Dulcinea.

Demosthenes

An orator whom Don Quixote names as a model of eloquence.

Cicero

Also known as Tully

A Roman orator whom Don Quixote names as a model of eloquence.

Master Pedro

Also known as the puppet-showman · Ginés de Pasamonte · Don Ginésillo de Parapilla

A travelling puppet-showman who is actually the galley slave Ginés de Pasamonte, escaped and disguised to avoid justice. He uses an ape trained to seem clairvoyant, stages puppet shows, and is compensated after Don Quixote destroys his puppets.

the divining ape

Master Pedro’s ape, trained to mount his shoulder and seem to whisper answers about the past and present. It escapes to the inn roof during Don Quixote’s attack on the puppet show, then returns to Master Pedro.

the boy interpreter of the puppet show

Also known as the interpreter · Master Pedro’s servant

An unnamed boy who introduces and narrates the puppet show about Don Gaiferos and Melisendra, pointing out its figures with a wand.

Don Gaiferos

The hero of the puppet show’s story, who rescues his wife Melisendra from captivity in Saragossa.

Melisendra

Also known as Doña Melisandra

Don Gaiferos’s wife, held captive in Saragossa in the puppet-show story. Don Quixote mistakes the puppets representing her and her husband for real people in danger.

Charlemagne

Also known as Emperor Charlemagne

Melisendra’s supposed father and Don Gaiferos’s father-in-law in the puppet-show story. Don Quixote mistakes his puppet for the real emperor and splits it in two.

King Marsilio of Sansueña

Also known as King Marsilio of Saragossa · Marsilio

A Moorish king in the puppet-show story, who orders a kinsman punished for kissing Melisendra. Don Quixote mistakes his puppet for a real adversary and decapitates it.

the amorous Moor in the puppet show

Also known as the Moor

An unnamed Moorish kinsman of King Marsilio who steals a kiss from Melisendra, prompting the king to sentence him to lashes.

the damsel attending Melisendra

Also known as one of Melisendra’s damsels

An unnamed attendant represented by a puppet in the show. Master Pedro identifies the damaged, noseless figure Don Quixote thinks is Melisendra as this damsel.

the master of the inn

Also known as the landlord

The innkeeper who, with Sancho, arbitrates the value of the puppets Don Quixote destroys. He is astonished by Don Quixote’s behaviour and generosity.

the man with the lances and halberds

Also known as the worthy fellow

An unnamed traveller carrying lances and halberds on a mule. He leaves the inn before daylight.

the youth bound for the wars

Also known as the page · the travelling page · the young man

An unnamed young man travelling to enlist in the infantry because he is poor. He leaves the inn after daybreak to resume his journey, with twelve reals from Don Quixote.

the cousin who guides Don Quixote

Also known as the cousin · the fencing licentiate’s cousin

An unnamed young humanist who guides Don Quixote and Sancho to the Cave of Montesinos and accompanies them to the inn. He leaves after daybreak to return home.

Gines de Pasamonte

Also known as Gines · Ginesillo de Parapilla · Ginesillo de Paropillo · Master Pedro · Don Ginesillo de Parapilla

A notorious galley slave and thief whom Don Quixote freed. He stole Dapple, later recovered by Sancho, and disguises himself as Master Pedro, a puppet-showman with a trained ape, to evade justice.

the two regidors searching for the ass

Also known as the regidors · the owner of the ass and the finder

Two unnamed local officials who searched for a lost ass by braying to it. Their story inspires a town’s mockery and the banner that identifies the militia Don Quixote encounters.

the lost ass of the regidor

Also known as the ass

An unnamed ass that went missing and was found dead in the forest. Its story becomes the subject of a banner and a feud between neighbouring towns.

the townsfolk of the braying town

Also known as the militia · the troop · the band

An armed company from the town mocked for its officials’ braying. They prepare to fight a neighbouring town, strike Sancho when he brays, and drive Don Quixote away with stones and weapons.

the man who strikes Sancho

Also known as the man with the long staff

An unnamed member of the braying-town troop who mistakes Sancho’s imitation of a bray for mockery and strikes him with a staff.

the opposing townsfolk

Also known as the enemy

The unnamed inhabitants of the neighbouring town whose insults prompt the braying town’s armed expedition.

the fishermen who own the boat

Also known as the fishermen

Unnamed fishermen who own the boat Don Quixote takes onto the Ebro. After the millers rescue him and Sancho, they demand and receive payment for the wrecked boat.

the millers

Also known as the millers belonging to the mills

Unnamed workers at the Ebro’s water mills who use poles to stop Don Quixote and Sancho’s boat from being pulled into the wheels. They rescue both men from the water.

the duke’s huntsmen

Also known as the huntsmen

Unnamed servants who help Don Quixote and Sancho after they fall while meeting the duke and duchess.

the two damsels at the castle entrance

Also known as the fair damsels

Unnamed women who place a scarlet mantle over Don Quixote’s shoulders as he enters the castle.

the courtiers and guests at the castle

Also known as those in the castle

Unnamed people present at the duke and duchess’s estate who take part in welcoming Don Quixote and Sancho.

the astrologer who predicts the puppies

Also known as señor astrologer · señor planet-ruler

An unnamed figure-schemer asked to predict the litter of a lady’s lap-dog. He predicts three differently coloured puppies, but the dog dies before giving birth.

the lady with the lap-dog

Also known as the lady

An unnamed woman who asks an astrologer whether her lap-dog will have puppies and what they will look like.

the lady’s lap-dog

Also known as the bitch

A small female dog whose litter is the subject of an astrologer’s failed prediction. She dies of a surfeit before giving birth.

the weaver of the apes’ bargain

Also known as the devil · the enemy of mankind

The devil, whom Don Quixote suspects has empowered Master Pedro’s ape in exchange for Master Pedro’s soul. Don Quixote says the devil knows the past and present but not the future.

Ptolemy

Also known as the greatest cosmographer known

A cosmographer whom Don Quixote cites in explaining the divisions of the globe to Sancho.

Don Diego de Miranda

Also known as the gentleman in green · the man in the green gaban · the gentleman on the mare

A well-to-do gentleman of La Mancha whose house provided Sancho with a rare comfortable stay. Sancho recalls his hospitality while complaining about life on the road.

Camacho the Rich

Also known as Camacho

A wealthy young farmer whose wedding feast fed Sancho. Sancho recalls this meal when comparing his hardships as a squire with work for a farmer.

Basilio the Poor

Also known as Basilio

A talented young villager who won Quiteria’s hand in marriage. Sancho recalls the food and lodging he received at Basilio’s house.

Tom Carrasco

Also known as the father of the bachelor Samson Carrasco

An unnamed farmer for whom Sancho once worked, paying him two ducats per month besides food. He is the father of Samson Carrasco.

the water-mill boat

Also known as the bark

A small boat belonging to fishermen on the Ebro. Don Quixote mistakes it for an enchanted vessel, and it is wrecked against the mill wheels.

the god of the mills

Also known as God

The deity to whom Sancho prays during the dangerous boat ride and after the men are thrown into the river.

Quiteria the Fair

Also known as Quiteria · the fair Quiteria · the bride

A beautiful young woman once promised to Camacho, who freely chooses Basilio as her lawful husband after he stages his apparent death. She confirms their marriage even after his trick is exposed.

the wedding priest

Also known as the priest

An unnamed priest at Basilio and Quiteria’s wedding. He urges Basilio to confess, marries the pair, and helps pacify Camacho and his supporters after Basilio’s deception is revealed.

the friends of Basilio

Also known as Basilio’s friends

Unnamed friends who support Basilio at the wedding, plead for Quiteria to marry him, and help his staged death and marriage succeed.

the followers of Camacho

Also known as Camacho’s supporters · those of his following

Unnamed supporters of Camacho who initially draw swords against Basilio and his allies, then put them away after the priest intervenes.

the followers of Basilio

Also known as Basilio’s side · their followers

Unnamed people who support Basilio and Quiteria and accompany them back to Basilio’s village.

the people watching Basilio’s wedding

Also known as the bystanders · those present

Unnamed wedding guests who witness Basilio’s staged wound, marriage, and exposure of the trick.

the fencing licentiate

Also known as the licentiate

An unnamed student and fencing expert who is Basilio’s friend. He helps find the cousin who guides Don Quixote to the Cave of Montesinos.

Durandarte

Also known as the sore-wounded Durandarte · Señor Durandarte

An enchanted knight and cousin of Montesinos. He lies in a tomb in the crystal castle, still sighing and speaking of his last request that Montesinos take his heart to Belerma.

Belerma

Also known as the lady Belerma · Doña Belerma

Durandarte’s beloved, enchanted with him and Montesinos in the cave. She carries Durandarte’s preserved heart in a cloth and leads a mourning procession with her attendants.

the attendants of Durandarte and Belerma

Also known as the two lines of fair damsels · the damsels

Unnamed enchanted attendants who appear in mourning procession behind Belerma in Don Quixote’s account of the cave.

Guadiana

Also known as the tearful Guadiana · Guadiana the squire

Durandarte’s squire, said by Montesinos to have been transformed into the river Guadiana while mourning his master. In Don Quixote’s vision, the lakes of Ruidera feed the river.

Ruidera

Also known as the duenna Ruidera

An enchanted duenna whose tears, according to Montesinos, led Merlin to transform her into one of the Lakes of Ruidera.

the seven daughters of Ruidera

Also known as Ruidera’s seven daughters

Seven women enchanted by Merlin and transformed into the Lakes of Ruidera. Montesinos says they belong to the kings of Spain.

the two nieces of Ruidera

Also known as Ruidera’s two nieces

Two women enchanted by Merlin and transformed into the Lakes of Ruidera. Montesinos says they belong to knights of the Order of St. John.

the companion of Dulcinea who asks for money

Also known as one of the two companions of the hapless Dulcinea · the damsel

An unnamed woman in Don Quixote’s account of the cave who brings him Dulcinea’s request for six reals, offering a petticoat as pledge.

the three peasant girls of El Toboso

Also known as the three village lasses · the three country girls

Three unnamed local women whom Sancho previously presented to Don Quixote as Dulcinea and her attendants. Don Quixote claims to recognize them as enchanted ladies in the Cave of Montesinos.

Queen Guinevere

The legendary queen whom Don Quixote says Montesinos recognized among the enchanted women in the cave.

Quintañona

Also known as dame Quintañona

The confidante and go-between in the story of Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, whom Don Quixote says was enchanted in the cave.

Lucifer

The fallen angel whom Sancho jokingly calls the first tumbler, for tumbling from heaven into the pit.

the hermit

An unnamed former soldier who lives near the road and is reputed to be a good Christian, intelligent, and charitable. He is away when Don Quixote and his companions visit.

the sub-hermit

Also known as the woman at the hermitage

An unnamed woman staying at the hermitage in the hermit’s absence. She tells Don Quixote’s party that the hermit has no food to offer.

the man carrying arms

Also known as the man with the lances and halberds · the worthy fellow

An unnamed traveller carrying lances and halberds on a mule. He tells Don Quixote a story about two regidors who brayed while searching for a lost ass, and says his town is preparing to fight another village.

Teresa Panza’s jug

Also known as the jug with a broken spout

An inanimate object; omitted.

Andandona

Also known as the giantess Andandona

A giantess whom Sancho says Don Quixote described as clever and worthy.

Marquis of Mantua

Baldwin’s uncle and liege lord in the ballad. Don Quixote invokes the vow he made to avenge his nephew.

Baldwin

A legendary wounded knight in a ballad Don Quixote cites while promising to seek Dulcinea’s disenchantment.

the Infante Don Pedro of Portugal

Also known as Don Pedro of Portugal

A Portuguese prince whom Don Quixote cites as having travelled widely.

the two Moorish choughs

Also known as the crows and choughs

Not individually identifiable; omitted.

the crows and night-birds of the cave

Also known as the crows · the bats

Birds and bats that fly out of the Cave of Montesinos when Don Quixote clears its entrance. They knock him down.

the two damsels in the cave’s mourning procession

Also known as the damsels

Not individually distinct from the attendants of Durandarte and Belerma; included under that group.

the town’s regidor who lost the ass

Also known as the owner of the ass

An unnamed town official whose ass disappears. He searches for it with another regidor and is later told it has been eaten by wolves.

the regidor who finds the ass

Also known as the finder · the inventor of the plan

An unnamed town official who says he saw the lost ass and proposes that he and its owner bray to locate it. They instead mistake each other’s calls and later find the ass dead.

the wolf-eaten ass

The lost animal of the regidor, found dead in the forest after being devoured by wolves.

the son of Don Diego de Miranda

Also known as Don Diego’s son · Don Lorenzo

Don Diego de Miranda’s eighteen-year-old son, a modest poet who studies and composes verse. He shares poems with Don Quixote, who praises his talent and urges him to consider knight-errantry.

the mare of Don Diego de Miranda

Also known as Don Diego’s mare · the gentleman’s flea-bitten mare

Don Diego’s handsome, flea-bitten mare, which he rides while traveling with Don Quixote and Sancho.

the carter

Also known as the owner of the oxcart

An unnamed carter transporting two caged lions in a royal cart. At Don Quixote’s insistence, he unhitches his mules and moves to safety before the lion’s cage is opened.

the lion keeper

Also known as the keeper

An unnamed keeper accompanying the royal cart with a caged male and female lion. He opens the male’s cage under Don Quixote’s threats, then certifies that the lion did not emerge and promises to report the encounter to the King.

the male lion in the cart

Also known as the lion

A large caged lion being transported as a gift to the King. When its cage is opened, it yawns, looks around, and lies down again without confronting Don Quixote.

the female lion in the cart

Also known as the lioness

A caged lioness being transported with the male lion as a gift to the King.

the man sitting at the door of the cart

Also known as the man at the door of the cart

An unnamed attendant who sits at the royal cart and explains that it carries hungry lions sent by the governor of Oran to the King.

the governor of Oran

An unnamed governor who sends the caged lions to court as a present for the King.

Doña Christina

Also known as the lady of Don Diego’s house

Don Diego de Miranda’s wife, who warmly receives Don Quixote at their home with her son Don Lorenzo.

the translator of this history

Also known as the translator

An unnamed translator who omits descriptions of Don Diego’s house and other details that he considers unrelated to the story’s main purpose.

the nymph who explains the dance

Also known as one of the nymphs

An unnamed performer in the wedding’s allegorical dance who tells Don Quixote that a local beneficiary composed and arranged it.

the bachelor or beneficiary who composed the dance

Also known as the beneficiary of the town

An unnamed local cleric who devised the allegorical dance performed at Camacho and Quiteria’s wedding.

the young man who leads the sword-dancers

Also known as the active youth

An unnamed youth who leads a company of sword-dancers at the wedding festivities.

the venerable old man in the dancers

Also known as the old man

An unnamed performer who leads a dance of young women at the wedding festivities.

the ancient dame in the dancers

Also known as the ancient dame

An unnamed, surprisingly lively older woman who leads a dance of young women at the wedding festivities.

Cupid

Also known as the god of Love

The personified god of love, portrayed in an allegorical wedding dance as the leader of one band of nymphs.

Interest

A personified figure in the wedding’s allegorical dance, leading a band of nymphs that represents wealth and material advantage.

Poetry

Also known as Poesy

A personified figure in the wedding’s allegorical dance, one of the nymphs in Cupid’s band.

Wit

A personified nymph in Cupid’s band in the wedding dance.

Birth

A personified nymph in Cupid’s band in the wedding dance.

Valour

A personified nymph in Cupid’s band in the wedding dance.

Liberality

A personified nymph in Interest’s band in the wedding dance.

Largess

A personified nymph in Interest’s band in the wedding dance.

Treasure

A personified nymph in Interest’s band in the wedding dance.

Peaceful Possession

A personified nymph in Interest’s band in the wedding dance.

the eight nymphs in the allegorical dance

Also known as the nymphs

Eight performers divided between Cupid’s and Interest’s bands in a wedding dance. Their names personify qualities and resources such as Poetry, Valour, Liberality, and Treasure.

the two students traveling to the wedding

Also known as the students · the couple of students

Two unnamed students traveling with peasants toward the wedding of Quiteria and Camacho. One carries belongings and the other fencing foils; one tells Don Quixote about Basilio’s love for Quiteria.

the student who tells Don Quixote about Basilio

Also known as the bachelor · the licentiate

An unnamed student who describes the impending wedding and Basilio’s despair. He has studied canon law at Salamanca, carries fencing foils, and defeats Bachelor Corchuelo in a sword match.

Bachelor Corchuelo

Also known as Corchuelo · the other student

An unnamed student and bachelor traveling to the wedding, who boasts that strength and raw swordsmanship can defeat fencing skill. The licentiate defeats him in a friendly match, and he accepts the lesson.

the two peasants traveling to the wedding

Also known as the peasants

Two unnamed villagers traveling with the students to the wedding. One is a notary who later certifies how far Corchuelo threw the licentiate’s sword.

the peasant who is a notary

Also known as the notary

An unnamed peasant traveling to the wedding who retrieves the sword Corchuelo throws and later swears how far it traveled.

the father of Quiteria

Also known as Quiteria’s father

An unnamed man who ends Basilio’s access to Quiteria’s home and arranges her marriage to the wealthier Camacho.

the mother of Quiteria

Also known as Quiteria’s mother

An unnamed woman whose home Basilio lived next door to as a child; the passage mentions her only as one of Quiteria’s parents.

the relatives of Camacho and Quiteria

Also known as the relatives of both

Unnamed family members accompanying the wedding party.

the twelve peasants on mares

Also known as the men on the mares

Twelve unnamed villagers in holiday dress who ride ahead of the wedding party, race across the meadow, and cheer Camacho and Quiteria.

the sword-dancers

Also known as the company of sword-dancers

A company of about twenty-four young men who perform intricate sword dances at the wedding.

the young women in the wedding dance

Also known as the fair young maidens

A group of young women who perform a wedding dance led by an old man and an older woman.

the musicians at the wedding

Also known as the bands of musicians

Unnamed musicians who play instruments and accompany the dances and festivities.

the cooks and cook-maids

Also known as the cooks

More than fifty unnamed cooks and kitchen workers who prepare the abundant food for Camacho’s wedding.

the cook who feeds Sancho

Also known as one of the busy cooks

An unnamed cook who gives Sancho a bucketful of hens and geese from the wedding pots.

the spectators at the wedding

Also known as the beholders

Unnamed people gathered to watch the wedding dances, plays, and pageantry.

the relatives of Don Diego’s household

Also known as Don Diego’s wife and son

Not a separate individual character; omitted.

Launcelot

Also known as Lancelot

The legendary knight whose love for Queen Guinevere is invoked by Don Quixote when praising Basilio.

the mother of Sancho’s family

Also known as Sancho’s grandmother

Sancho’s unnamed grandmother, who taught him that the world has the rich and the poor, and that she preferred the rich.

the wedding’s master of ceremonies

Also known as the person arranging the wedding

An unnamed organizer who arranges the benches and viewing area for the wedding performances.

the dancers’ leader on horseback

Also known as the youth who led them

An unnamed rider who asks the leader of the sword-dancers whether any performer has been injured.

the dancing devil with the bladders

Also known as the merry-andrew · the mummer

An unnamed performer whose bells and inflated ox bladders frighten Rocinante and Dapple. He rides Dapple away, then returns the ass and runs toward town.

the players of Angulo el Malo’s company

Also known as the company

A troupe of actors traveling in costume after performing The Cortés of Death. When Don Quixote approaches, they arm themselves with stones and prepare to defend themselves.

Death in The Cortés of Death

Also known as Death

A performer in Angulo el Malo’s company who plays Death in The Cortés of Death. He jumps from the cart and joins the others in facing Don Quixote.

the emperor performer

Also known as the emperor

A performer in Angulo el Malo’s company who plays the emperor in The Cortés of Death. He leaves the cart and joins the others in defending themselves with stones.

the cart’s devil performer

Also known as the devil · the carter · the coachman

An actor in Angulo el Malo’s company who plays the devil in The Cortés of Death and drives the cart. He jumps from it when Don Quixote approaches.

the angel performer

Also known as the angel

A performer in Angulo el Malo’s company who plays an angel in The Cortés of Death. He jumps from the cart when Don Quixote approaches.

the manager’s wife

Also known as the queen performer · the woman who plays the queen

The unnamed wife of the theatrical company’s manager, who plays the queen in The Cortés of Death. She leaves the cart with the other performers to face Don Quixote.

the Knight of the Mirrors

Also known as the Knight of the Grove · the Knight of the Wood · the doleful knight · he of the Grove · he of the Mirrors

A knight-errant who claims to have defeated Don Quixote and serves Casildea de Vandalia. He is actually Samson Carrasco in disguise, but Don Quixote believes enchanters have altered his appearance. Don Quixote defeats him and makes him promise to acknowledge Dulcinea’s superiority.

Casildea de Vandalia

Also known as Casildea · Casilda

The Andalusian lady loved by the Knight of the Mirrors, who says she has set him a series of difficult tasks and ordered him to make knights confess her beauty and his own valour.

the squire of the Knight of the Mirrors

Also known as the squire of the Grove · he of the Grove

An unnamed squire serving the Knight of the Mirrors, who boasts of his master’s exploits and proposes that he and Sancho fight while their masters do battle. He wears a false, enormous nose to disguise himself.

Tom Cecial

Also known as Sancho’s gossip · the neighbour and gossip of Sancho Panza

Sancho’s neighbour and gossip, a lively, feather-headed man who serves as Samson Carrasco’s squire in the disguise of the Knight of the Mirrors’ squire. After the plan fails, he leaves Carrasco and goes home.

the three children of the Knight of the Mirrors’ squire

Also known as his children

The unnamed three children of Tom Cecial, whom he compares to three Oriental pearls.

the Knight of the Mirrors’ squire’s daughter

Also known as his daughter

Tom Cecial’s fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he says his wife and he are raising to become a countess.

the horse of the Knight of the Mirrors

Also known as the Knight of the Mirrors’ horse

An unnamed, weary horse ridden by the Knight of the Mirrors. It cannot move when the knight tries to charge Don Quixote, allowing Don Quixote to unhorse him.

the two wine-tasters in Sancho’s family

Also known as Sancho’s two ancestors on his father’s side

Two unnamed relatives on Sancho’s father’s side, renowned in La Mancha for judging wine. Their assessment of a cask is later confirmed when a small key attached to a leather thong is found inside it.

Homer

The Greek poet whose wording Don Diego’s son studies and whose language Don Quixote cites in defending poetry written in one’s native tongue.

Martial

The poet whose verses Don Diego’s son studies, debating whether a particular epigram is indecent.

Horace

A poet whose works Don Diego’s son studies and whose style Don Quixote recommends for general moral satire.

Persius

Also known as Perseus

A poet whose works Don Diego’s son studies.

Juvenal

A poet whose works Don Diego’s son studies and whose satirical example is mentioned by Don Quixote.

Tibullus

A poet whose works Don Diego’s son studies.

Nisus

A figure whose friendship with Euryalus is invoked to describe the bond between Rocinante and Dapple.

Euryalus

A figure whose friendship with Nisus is invoked to describe the bond between Rocinante and Dapple.

Pylades

A figure whose friendship with Orestes is invoked to describe the bond between Rocinante and Dapple.

Orestes

A figure whose friendship with Pylades is invoked to describe the bond between Rocinante and Dapple.

the stork

An animal cited by the narrator as having taught people the use of the clyster.

the dog

An animal cited by the narrator as an example from which people learned gratitude.

the crane

An animal cited by the narrator as an example of watchfulness.

the ant

An animal cited by the narrator as an example of foresight.

the elephant

An animal cited by the narrator as an example of modesty.

the two fighting men of Andalusia

Also known as the fighting men of Andalusia

Unnamed Andalusian combatants whose custom, according to the Knight of the Mirrors’ squire, requires seconds to fight alongside their principals.

the bone-setter

An unnamed practitioner in a town who treats Samson Carrasco’s injuries after the failed encounter.

the Moorish cutlass’s former maker

Not a character; omitted.

the knight’s lady in the sonnet

Also known as the fairest and most ungrateful woman

The unnamed beloved addressed by the Knight of the Mirrors in his sonnet; he identifies her as Casildea de Vandalia.

La Giralda

Also known as the giantess of Seville

A personified giantess representing Seville’s Giralda tower, whom Casildea orders the Knight of the Mirrors to challenge. He claims to have stopped her motion for more than a week.

the Pope

The unnamed Pope, whom Sancho says his daughter is worthy to be presented before.

the first parents

Also known as Adam and Eve

The first man and woman, mentioned in the squire’s conversation as the recipients of God’s curse.

the God of laughter

A personified deity said to have been tutored by Silenus.

Dawn

Also known as the fresh morn

A personified figure whose arrival is described as day breaks.

Silenus

Also known as the good old Silenus

The tutor and instructor of the god of laughter, recalled in comparison with the squire’s large nose.

the princes of the game of chess

Also known as the chess pieces

Personified chess pieces used by Sancho as an analogy for how social distinctions disappear when life ends.

the bull in the plaza

An animal in the squire’s example about the complimentary expression used for a skilled horseman.

the Turkish ruler

Also known as the Turk

An unnamed ruler said to be approaching with a powerful fleet, causing concern throughout Christendom.

His Majesty

Also known as the King

The unnamed king whom Don Quixote discusses as having knights at court.

Amadis of Gaul

Also known as Amadis

A famed knight of romance whom Don Quixote calls humble, courteous, and a protector of damsels.

the Ottoman house’s founder

Also known as the humble and lowly shepherd

An unnamed shepherd who, Don Quixote says, founded the Ottoman lineage, which rose from humble beginnings to great power.

the Pharaohs of Egypt

The ancient rulers cited by Don Quixote as examples of once-great lineages that declined and ended.

the Ptolemies of Egypt

The ancient rulers cited by Don Quixote as examples of once-great lineages that declined and ended.

the Cæsars of Rome

Roman rulers cited by Don Quixote as examples of lineages that declined and ended.

the great Castilian poet

An unnamed poet whose verse Don Quixote quotes about rugged paths leading to immortality.

the friend who owns the helmet

Also known as Samson’s friend

An unnamed friend of Samson Carrasco who owns a closed helmet that Samson offers to Don Quixote.

the labourer who works for a rich farmer

Also known as the lad · the labourer

An unnamed farm labourer recently arrived in El Toboso, driving a pair of mules before daybreak. He directs Don Quixote to the village curate and sacristan for information about its residents.

the curate of El Toboso

Also known as the village curate

An unnamed priest in El Toboso who, according to a labourer, can provide information about the town’s inhabitants.

the sacristan of El Toboso

Also known as the sacristan

An unnamed church official in El Toboso who, according to a labourer, can provide information about the town’s inhabitants.

the peasant girl presented as Dulcinea

Also known as the village lass who did duty for Dulcinea

An unnamed woman among the three peasant girls whom Sancho identifies as Dulcinea. She angrily demands that Don Quixote and Sancho let her pass, then rides away after her animal throws her.

the peasant girl who speaks of her father-in-law’s ass

An unnamed companion of the girl Sancho presents as Dulcinea. She rebukes Don Quixote and Sancho for blocking the women’s way.

the father-in-law of the peasant girl

An unnamed man whose she-ass is being rubbed down by one of the peasant girls.

the three peasant girls’ animals

Also known as the she-asses · the jennyasses

The unnamed riding animals of the three peasant girls, which Don Quixote mistakes for ordinary donkeys and Sancho describes as fine hackneys.

the author of this great history

Also known as the author

The unnamed narrator of the history, who says he records Sancho’s deception of Don Quixote truthfully.

the famous poet who wrote a satire against courtesan ladies

Also known as the poet

An unnamed poet who added a woman to his satire after she complained that he had left her out, thereby giving her notoriety.

the woman who demands inclusion in the satire

Also known as the certain lady

An unnamed woman who demands that a poet include her in his satire against courtesan ladies, preferring infamous renown to being omitted.

Erostratus

Also known as Herostratus

The shepherd who burned the famous temple of Diana to make his name endure. Don Quixote says his name became known despite efforts to suppress it.

Charles V

Also known as the great emperor Charles V · the emperor

The emperor who visited the Pantheon in Rome and banished a gentleman who confessed he had considered killing them both to win lasting fame.

the gentleman in Rome

Also known as the Roman gentleman

An unnamed Roman who tells Charles V he considered throwing them both from the Pantheon’s skylight to gain lasting fame; the emperor banishes him.

Horatius

Also known as Horatius Cocles

A Roman hero whom Don Quixote cites as having leapt from a bridge into the Tiber in pursuit of fame.

Mutius

Also known as Mucius Scaevola

A Roman hero whom Don Quixote cites for burning his own hand and arm.

Curtius

Also known as Marcus Curtius

A Roman hero whom Don Quixote cites for plunging into a burning gulf in Rome.

Hernán Cortés

Also known as Cortés · the most courteous Cortés

The Spanish commander whose men, Don Quixote says, scuttled their ships and became stranded in the New World.

the two recently canonised barefoot friars

Also known as the two little barefoot friars

Two unnamed friars whom Sancho says were recently canonised and beatified; their chains are venerated.

the soldier performer

Also known as the soldier

A performer in Angulo el Malo’s company who plays a soldier in The Cortés of Death.

Angulo el Malo

Also known as Angulo

The manager associated with the acting company performing The Cortés of Death.

Charon

The mythological ferryman of the dead, whose boat Don Quixote says the theatrical cart resembles.

Allah

Also known as the all-powerful

The deity praised by Hamete Benengeli at the start of the account of Don Quixote and Sancho’s new adventures.

the madman in Cordova who throws stones at dogs

An unnamed man in Cordova who drops a heavy stone on dogs for amusement. After a cap-maker beats him for injuring his lurcher, he avoids striking dogs and calls them all lurchers.

the cap-maker

Also known as the dog’s master

An unnamed man who is fond of his lurcher. He beats the stone-throwing madman after the man injures his dog.

the cap-maker’s lurcher

Also known as the cap-maker’s dog

The cap-maker’s much-loved dog, injured when the madman drops a stone on its head.

the mad licentiate of Seville

Also known as the graduate of Osuna

An unnamed canon-law graduate confined in Seville’s madhouse, whose family wants to keep control of his property. He seems rational enough to persuade an archbishop’s chaplain to release him, but when another inmate claims to be Jupiter, the licentiate claims to be Neptune and is left in the madhouse.

the Archbishop of Seville

Also known as the Archbishop

An unnamed archbishop who orders a chaplain to investigate the licentiate’s claim that he has recovered his reason.

the Archbishop’s chaplain

Also known as the chaplain

An unnamed chaplain sent to assess the confined licentiate. He initially believes him sane, but leaves him in the madhouse after the licentiate claims to be Neptune.

the governor of the madhouse at Seville

Also known as the governor

An unnamed official who insists that the licentiate remains mad and warns the chaplain against releasing him.

the furious madman in the cage

Also known as the madman who claims to be Jupiter

An unnamed inmate of Seville’s madhouse who claims to be Jupiter the Thunderer and threatens to withhold rain from the city.

the second madman in the cage

Also known as the madman who claims to be Neptune

An unnamed inmate who claims to be Neptune, god of the waters, after the licentiate says he is leaving cured. His claim convinces the chaplain to leave him in the madhouse.

the licentiate’s relations

Also known as his relations

The unnamed family of the confined licentiate, whom he accuses of keeping him in the madhouse to retain his property.

the people of Don Quixote’s village

Also known as the common people

Unnamed villagers whose opinion Sancho reports: they consider Don Quixote a great madman and Sancho a fool.

the village hidalgos

Also known as the hidalgos

Unnamed gentlemen whose opinion Sancho reports: they criticize Don Quixote for assuming the title of Don and making himself a knight.

the village caballeros

Also known as the caballeros

Unnamed knights whose opinion Sancho reports: they object to hidalgos setting themselves up as their equals.

the author of the preface

Also known as the narrator · Miguel de Cervantes · Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes, the first-person authorial narrator who presents Don Quixote’s history. In the preface he answers the anonymous rival author, praises his protectors, and says this Second Part will continue Don Quixote’s story through his death and burial.

the great Conde de Lemos

Also known as Count of Lemos · the great Count of Lemos

A noble patron whom Cervantes praises for supporting and protecting him through his generosity and Christian charity.

Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas

Also known as His Eminence of Toledo

The Archbishop of Toledo, whom Cervantes praises alongside the Conde de Lemos for his kindness and protection.

the barber’s story’s Jupiter

Also known as Jupiter the Thunderer

The identity claimed by the furious inmate of Seville’s madhouse, who threatens to deny the city rain.

the barber’s story’s Neptune

Also known as Neptune, the father and god of the waters

The identity claimed by the licentiate when he answers the inmate who says he is Jupiter.

Sanchico

Also known as Sancho

Sancho and Teresa’s son, who is fifteen. Teresa says he should attend school and might be trained for the Church by his uncle the abbot.

Mari-Sancha

Also known as Sanchica · Maria

Sancho and Teresa’s daughter, whom Sancho wants to marry into a high-ranking family if he becomes governor. Teresa favors a match with Lope Tocho, a young man of their own station.

the abbot who is Sancho’s uncle

Also known as Sancho’s uncle the abbot

An unnamed abbot and relative of Sancho, whom Teresa suggests might train Sanchico for the Church.

Lope Tocho

Also known as Juan Tocho’s son

A sturdy young man from Sancho and Teresa’s village whom Teresa proposes as a suitable husband for their daughter.

Juan Tocho

Lope Tocho’s unnamed-in-the-story father, identified as his father by Teresa.

the preacher of the town

Also known as his reverence the preacher · the padre

An unnamed preacher who spoke in Sancho’s town during Lent. Sancho recalls his argument that present sights remain more vivid in memory than past circumstances.

the lords of the council

Also known as the council

Unnamed royal councillors whom Don Quixote fears might learn his proposed defense against the Turks and take credit for it.

the famous interlude of The Perendenga

Also known as the interlude of “The Perendenga”

A play whose line the narrator invokes in his reply to the anonymous rival author.

the Veintiquatro

Also known as my lord the Veintiquatro

An unnamed civic dignitary invoked in a line from The Perendenga.

the author of Mingo Revulgo

An unnamed poet whose verses are used in the preface to compare the number of books written against Cervantes.

the madman of Seville who inflates dogs

Also known as the madman in Seville

An unnamed man who entertains by inflating dogs with a reed tube. Cervantes recalls his antics in the preface as a parallel to the stone-throwing madman.

the stone-throwing madman’s dogs

Dogs the unnamed Cordovan madman approaches and labels lurchers after being beaten for injuring one dog.

the famous poet of the three tragedies

An unnamed celebrated Spanish poet who wrote the tragedies Isabella, Phyllis, and Alexandra, which the canon says pleased audiences and performers.

Don Belianis

Also known as Don Belianis of Greece

A knight of chivalry whose adventures Don Quixote reads about. Don Quixote says that he, or one of Amadis’s descendants, could defeat the Turkish forces.

Palmerin of England

A knight of romance whom Don Quixote praises as exceptionally discreet.

Tirante el Blanco

Also known as Tirante

The bold knight of a romance praised by Don Quixote for his gracious manner.

Lisuarte of Greece

A romance knight whom Don Quixote praises for courtliness.

Perion of Gaul

A romance knight whom Don Quixote praises for facing danger.

Felixmarte of Hircania

Also known as the valiant Felixmarte

A famous knight-errant whom Don Quixote praises for fearlessly facing danger.

Esplandian

Also known as Sergas de Esplandian

The lawful son of Amadis of Gaul, whom Don Quixote praises for sincerity.

Don Cirongilio of Thrace

A knight of romance whom Don Quixote praises for impetuosity.

Rodamonte

A romance knight whom Don Quixote praises for boldness.

King Sobrino

Also known as Sobrino

A king in romance whom Don Quixote praises for prudence.

Reinaldos of Montalban

Also known as Reinaldos of Montalvan

A romance knight whom Don Quixote praises for daring and describes as broad-faced, ruddy, touchy, and fond of rogues.

Roland

Also known as Orlando · Don Roland · Rotolando

A legendary knight whom Don Quixote praises as invincible and describes as broad-shouldered and red-bearded. He is said to have been rejected by Angelica in favor of Medoro.

Ruggiero

A romance knight whom Don Quixote praises for gallantry and courtesy, and whom Turpin’s Cosmography makes an ancestor of the dukes of Ferrara.

Turpin

Also known as the veracious historian Turpin

A supposed historian whom Don Quixote cites as a source for Ruggiero’s descent and as an authority on the Twelve Peers of France.

the dukes of Ferrara

A noble family said by Don Quixote, citing Turpin, to descend from Ruggiero.

Goliath

Also known as Golias

The Philistine giant whose height in Scripture Don Quixote cites as evidence that giants once existed.

Morgante

Also known as the giant Morgante

A giant in romance whose probable height Don Quixote debates with the barber, reasoning that houses could contain him.

Angelica

Also known as the fair Angelica · Lady Angelica

A woman in romance who rejects Roland and becomes involved with Medoro. Don Quixote calls her flighty and unfaithful, while the curate suggests that Roland’s appearance explains her choice.

Medoro

The man with whom Angelica is said to have fallen in love after rejecting Roland. Don Quixote describes him as a smooth-faced young page.

Sacripante

A romance king whom Don Quixote says would have written satire against Angelica if he had been a poet rejected by her.

the Andalusian poet who sings Angelica’s tears

An unnamed celebrated Andalusian poet who wrote of Angelica’s tears after Ariosto left her story unfinished.

the Castilian poet who sings Angelica’s beauty

An unnamed celebrated Castilian poet who wrote of Angelica’s beauty.

the famous poet Ariosto

Also known as Ludovico Ariosto · Ariosto · the Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto

A Christian poet praised by the curate for drawing on Boiardo’s invention. Don Quixote says Ariosto left Angelica’s later adventures for another poet to sing.

the Twelve Peers of France

A group of romance knights discussed by Don Quixote and the curate; no individual members beyond those named are identified here.

the young man who stole Sancho’s ass

Also known as the famous thief Brunello

Brunello, a thief in Don Quixote’s comparison to the theft of Sancho’s ass. Don Quixote says he used stakes to steal Sacripante’s horse at Albracca.

Sacripante’s horse

The unnamed horse that Brunello steals from beneath Sacripante using a trick with stakes.

the Turkish fleet’s commander

Also known as the Turk

An unnamed ruler whose fleet is said to threaten Christendom and prompt preparations for defense.

the translator of Don Quixote’s history

Also known as the translator of this history

An unnamed translator who comments that the chapter about Sancho and Teresa seems apocryphal because Sancho speaks with unexpected subtlety.

the canon of Toledo

Also known as the canon

An unnamed canon of Toledo who travels with Don Quixote’s party. He debates Don Quixote about books of chivalry, listens to the goatherd’s story, and witnesses the knight’s encounter with the penitents.

the canon’s attendants

Also known as the canon’s servants

Unnamed attendants travelling with the canon of Toledo. They fetch provisions and the sumpter mule, then join the party’s meal in the valley.

the canon’s master

Also known as the master of the canon

An unnamed master accompanying the canon of Toledo, whom the canon identifies as his superior in the travelling party.

the curate’s friend in the village

Also known as the friend in the village

An unnamed village friend whom the curate and barber had intended to take Don Quixote to, hoping to treat his madness.

the goatherd who tells the story of Leandra

Also known as the goatherd

Eugenio, a wealthy goatherd who tells the company how Leandra ran away with Vicente de la Roca and was left robbed in a cave. He and his rival Anselmo live in the mountains lamenting their love for her.

Spotty

Also known as the beautiful goat · the fugitive goat

Eugenio’s female goat, which runs from the fold and is spoken to as if she understood him. She sits quietly beside him while he tells his story.

Leandra

Also known as the rich damsel

A beautiful and intelligent young woman whose flight with Vicente de la Roca ends with her being found robbed in a mountain cave. Her father confines her in a convent, while Eugenio, Anselmo, and many other suitors lament or praise her.

Eugenio

Also known as the goatherd who tells the story of Leandra · the goatherd

A wealthy goatherd and one of Leandra’s rejected suitors. He tells how she fled with Vicente de la Roca and now lives in the mountains, lamenting her fickleness.

Anselmo

Also known as Leandra’s other suitor

A wealthy young man from Leandra’s village and Eugenio’s rival for her hand. After she runs away with Vicente de la Roca, he becomes a shepherd and mourns her separation.

Vicente de la Roca

Also known as the soldier

A poor peasant’s son who returns to Leandra’s village after military service, boasting of his exploits and displaying flashy clothes. He wins Leandra’s affection, takes her away on a promise of marriage, robs her, and abandons her in a cave.

the father of Leandra

Also known as Leandra’s father · the worthy farmer

A wealthy, virtuous farmer and Leandra’s father. After Vicente de la Roca deceives and robs his daughter, he takes her away and confines her in a convent.

the captain who took Vicente de la Roca from his village

Also known as the captain who carried Vicente away

An unnamed captain who passed through Vicente de la Roca’s village and took him away as a boy of about twelve to serve as a soldier.

the officers of the Brotherhood accompanying Don Quixote’s party

Also known as the officers

Unnamed officers of the Brotherhood who travel with Don Quixote’s party. They enjoy the fight between Don Quixote and the goatherd and later accompany the procession, but decline to continue toward the village.

the goatherd of the procession

Also known as the man who strikes Don Quixote

An unnamed villager in the penitents’ procession who strikes Don Quixote with a broken forked stick, knocking him from Rocinante.

the four ecclesiastics chanting the Litany

Also known as the ecclesiastics

Four unnamed clergy walking with the penitents’ procession. One of them answers Don Quixote when he demands that they release the image he mistakes for a captive lady.

the man carrying the penitents’ stand

Also known as one of the bearers

An unnamed bearer of the image in the procession who leaves his place to confront Don Quixote. He strikes the knight down with the end of a broken forked stick.

the curate in the penitents’ procession

Also known as the other curate

An unnamed curate walking in the penitents’ procession who recognizes Don Quixote’s curate, helping calm both groups’ suspicions.

the penitents of the nearby village

Also known as the processionists

Unnamed villagers making a procession to a hermitage to pray for rain. Don Quixote mistakes their penitential clothing and image for a kidnapping.

the academicians of Argamasilla

A group of unnamed academicians whose verses about Don Quixote, Dulcinea, Rocinante, and Sancho are found among the parchments in an old leaden box.

Monicongo

Also known as Academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes an epitaph for Don Quixote.

Paniaguado

Also known as Academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes a sonnet in praise of Dulcinea.

Caprichoso

Also known as the most acute academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes a sonnet in praise of Rocinante.

Burlador

Also known as Academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes a sonnet about Sancho Panza.

Cachidiablo

Also known as Academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes an epitaph for Don Quixote.

Tiquitoc

Also known as Academician of Argamasilla

An academician of Argamasilla who writes an epitaph for Dulcinea.

the physician who found the leaden box

Also known as the old physician

An unnamed physician who possesses the leaden box discovered among the foundations of a rebuilt hermitage. The box contains parchment verses about Don Quixote and his companions.

the academican who deciphered the damaged verses

Also known as one of the Academicians

An unnamed academician who conjecturally deciphered the worm-eaten remainder of the parchments found in the leaden box.

the great Emperor of China

Also known as the Emperor of China · His Majesty

An unnamed emperor who writes to Cervantes asking for a copy of Don Quixote and inviting him to direct a Spanish-language college.

the special courier from China

Also known as the bearer

An unnamed courier sent by the Emperor of China with a letter inviting Cervantes to China.

the dogs inflated by the madman

Also known as a dog in the street

Dogs seized and inflated by the madman of Seville as part of his public antics.

the boy who brings news of Don Quixote’s return

Also known as the boy

An unnamed boy who runs from the plaza to tell Don Quixote’s housekeeper and niece that he has returned in an ox-cart.

the priest who is a familiar of the Holy Office

Also known as the priest

An unnamed priest and familiar of the Holy Office whom Cervantes says he will not attack in response to the rival author’s accusations.

the rival author’s defender

Also known as the person on whose behalf the rival author spoke

An unnamed person whom Cervantes says he admires and whose works he respects; the rival author appears to have spoken on this person’s behalf.

the canon’s damsel from the lake adventure

Also known as the loveliest damsel

An unnamed damsel in Don Quixote’s imagined chivalric adventure who explains that she is enchanted in a castle beneath the lake.

the damsel who welcomes the knight from the lake

Also known as the first among the damsels

An unnamed woman who appears with a group of damsels in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure and leads the knight into a marvelous castle.

Don Luis

Also known as the muleteer who sings for Doña Clara · the young nobleman in disguise · the young gentleman in disguise

A wealthy Aragonese gentleman and only heir who loves Doña Clara. He disguises himself as a muleteer to follow her, tells her father he wants to marry her, and is placed in Don Fernando’s care while his father is informed.

the Judge

Also known as Licentiate Juan Perez de Viedma · Señor Judge · the Judge of appeal · Doña Clara’s father · Doña Clara’s father

A wealthy judge of appeal travelling to take a post in Mexico, and the captive’s younger brother. He considers Don Luis’s marriage proposal for Doña Clara, helps calm the inn’s disturbances, and welcomes the captive and Zoraida.

the four travellers seeking Don Luis

Also known as the four men on horseback · the four horsemen arriving at the inn · the travellers who arrive at dawn · the four servants

Four servants sent by Don Luis’s father to find him and bring him home. They agree that three will return to report the situation while one stays with Don Luis.

the two guests who refuse to pay

Also known as the two guests

Two unnamed travellers who try to leave the inn without paying. When the landlord stops them, they beat him until the women call for help.

the innkeeper’s daughter

Also known as the young girl · the beautiful damsel · the landlady’s daughter

The innkeeper’s comely daughter, who helps care for Don Quixote, whom he imagines in love with him. She calls on him to rescue her father when two guests beat him.

Maritornes

Also known as the Asturian lass · the Asturian · the innkeeper’s daughter’s companion

An Asturian servant at the inn who has previously tended Sancho and Don Quixote. She calls Don Quixote out for delaying to help the landlord and later joins the others in pretending to grieve over Don Quixote’s departure.

the Princess Micomicona

A princess whose story is named in the chapter headings. Dorothea plays her to help bring Don Quixote home, and in that role grants him permission to aid the landlord.

Dorothea

Also known as the peasant girl loved by Don Fernando · the fair Dorothea

A wealthy farmer’s only daughter and Duke Ricardo’s vassal. She played Princess Micomicona to help bring Don Quixote home; at the inn she deftly calms his anger at Sancho and agrees to depart with him in character.

the barber

Also known as the travelling barber

An unnamed barber whose basin and pack-saddle Sancho and Don Quixote took, mistaking them for Mambrino’s helmet and a horse’s caparison. He confronts Sancho at the inn and argues for his property; the curate secretly pays him for the basin.

Cardenio

Also known as the owner of the valise · the ragged knight of the Sierra · the Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance · the Knight of the Thicket

A noble young Andalusian who loves Luscinda. He helps settle the inn’s disputes, takes part in the plan to carry Don Quixote home, and accompanies the group.

Don Fernando

Also known as Fernando

The younger son of Duke Ricardo, who promised to marry Dorothea and later pursued Luscinda. He helps resolve Don Luis’s situation, participates in the inn’s brawl and the plan to cage Don Quixote, and pays the innkeeper’s bill.

the Judge’s daughter

Also known as Doña Clara de Viedma · Doña Clara · Clara · the young lady arriving with the Judge

The Judge’s nearly sixteen-year-old daughter, travelling with him to Mexico. She is in love with Don Luis, who follows her in disguise; she is overjoyed when his servants agree to let him stay with Don Fernando.

the innkeeper’s wife

Also known as the hostess · the landlady

The kind-hearted wife of the innkeeper, who helps tend Don Quixote’s injuries. She calls for help when her husband is beaten and later joins the farewell to Don Quixote.

the officer of the Holy Brotherhood who holds the warrant

Also known as the holder of the warrant · one of the officers

An unnamed officer who recognizes Don Quixote from a warrant for freeing the galley slaves and tries to arrest him. He is subdued after the curate explains Don Quixote’s madness.

the three other officers of the Holy Brotherhood

Also known as the officers · the newly arrived officers

Three unnamed officers who arrive at the inn to arrest Don Quixote. They join the brawl after he attacks one of their number, then withdraw when the party is pacified.

the three travellers who are officers of the Holy Brotherhood

Also known as the three other officers of the Holy Brotherhood

Three unnamed officers of the Holy Brotherhood who arrive at the inn and join the dispute over the barber’s basin and pack-saddle. One is struck at by Don Quixote, and another later recognizes him from the arrest warrant.

the innkeeper’s guests

Three unnamed travellers who arrive at the inn during the dispute over the barber’s property. They include officers of the Holy Brotherhood.

the landlord’s brother officers

Also known as the landlord’s comrades

Unnamed fellow members of the Holy Brotherhood who join the landlord in supporting the officers during the attempt to arrest Don Quixote.

the captain, the captive’s brother

Also known as the captain

The captive, a Spanish soldier and former infantry captain who escaped Algiers with Zoraida. He travels with his brother, the Judge, and parts from the curate and barber at the inn.

Zoraida

Also known as the Moorish lady · Lela Zoraida · Maria · the Judge’s brother’s daughter

Hadji Morato’s daughter, who escaped Algiers with the captive and became Christian. She is reunited with the captive’s brother at the inn and watches him closely as the company prepares to part.

Luscinda

Also known as the Lady Luscinda

A noble young woman loved by Cardenio. She is present at the inn and is among the women who depart happily after the disputes are settled.

King Agramante

Also known as Agramante

A king in the romance episode Don Quixote invokes to describe the inn’s confused brawl. Don Quixote asks the Judge to represent him in making peace.

the sage Mentironiana

Also known as Mentironiana

A supposed sage cited by the disguised voice that prophesies Don Quixote’s future and promises Sancho his wages.

the masked barber who prophesies

Also known as the barber who gives the prophecy

The village barber, disguised and speaking in a theatrical voice, who prophesies Don Quixote’s future marriage to Dulcinea and reassures Sancho about his promised reward.

the six or seven mounted travellers

Also known as the new comers

Unnamed mounted travellers who overtake the slow cart procession on the road. Their leader, a canon of Toledo, asks why Don Quixote is caged.

the actors who perform popular plays

Also known as the actors

A general set of unnamed actors discussed by the canon and curate for preferring popular plays that cater to audiences and buyers.

the obstinate actor

Also known as the actor in question

An unnamed actor who argues that plays must cater to popular taste. The canon recalls trying to persuade him to value artistic rules.

King Pepin

Also known as Pepin

A king whose era is cited by the curate while criticizing anachronisms in contemporary plays.

Emperor Heraclius

Also known as Heraclius

An emperor whom the curate says is wrongly placed in a play set in the time of Pepin or Charlemagne.

Godfrey of Bouillon

Also known as Godfrey

A crusader whom the curate compares with Emperor Heraclius in an example of historical confusion on stage.

Octavianus

Also known as Octavian

The ruler whose peaceful era is invoked as a contrast to the imagined discord of Agramante’s camp.

Zoroaster

A figure Don Quixote calls the first inventor of magic while praising virtue’s power to survive trials.

the first Christian slave who taught Zoraida

Also known as the Christian slave who taught Zoraida

An unnamed Christian woman enslaved in Hadji Morato’s household who taught Zoraida Christian prayers and about the Virgin Mary; she died before the captive met Zoraida.

M. de Villalpando

Also known as Villalpando

An author of logic elements whose work the canon says he knows less well than books of chivalry.

the two princes of Greek and Latin poetry

Two unnamed poets whom the curate cites as models of fame in verse, wishing prose writers could equal them.

Isabella

A tragedy named by the canon as one of three successful plays written by a celebrated Spanish poet.

Phyllis

A tragedy named by the canon as one of three successful plays written by a celebrated Spanish poet.

Alexandra

A tragedy named by the canon as one of three successful plays written by a celebrated Spanish poet.

the author of The Ingratitude Revenged

Also known as the gifted poet who wrote The Ingratitude Revenged

An unnamed gifted poet whose play The Ingratitude Revenged is cited by the curate as an example of good drama.

the author of The Numantia

Also known as the gifted poet who wrote The Numantia

An unnamed gifted poet whose play The Numantia is cited by the curate as an example of good drama.

the author of The Merchant Lover

Also known as the gifted poet who wrote The Merchant Lover

An unnamed gifted poet whose play The Merchant Lover is cited by the curate as an example of good drama.

the author of The Friendly Fair Foe

Also known as the gifted poet who wrote The Friendly Fair Foe

An unnamed gifted poet whose play The Friendly Fair Foe is cited by the curate as an example of good drama.

the fertile playwright

Also known as the most fertile wit of these kingdoms

An unnamed prolific Spanish playwright praised by the curate for brilliance, graceful verse, and eloquence, though some of his plays were shaped to suit actors’ tastes.

the intelligent examiner of plays

An unnamed proposed official in the capital who would review plays before performance, according to the curate’s argument.

the old landlord's wife

Also known as the landlord's wife · the captive’s father’s wife

An unnamed woman mentioned as the wife in the captive’s family household.

Ulysses

Also known as Odysseus

A hero cited by Don Quixote as an example of prudence and patience. The canon cites his craftiness as a model quality for a literary character.

Achilles

A hero whose valour the canon lists among qualities an author might portray in a chivalric story.

Hector

A hero whose misfortunes the canon says could furnish material for a chivalric story.

Sinon

A figure whose treachery the canon lists as a trait an author could portray.

Alexander the Great

Also known as Alexander · Cæsar

A conqueror cited as an example of generosity by the canon.

Trajan

A ruler whose clemency and truth the canon lists among qualities an author could portray.

Zopyrus

A figure whose fidelity the canon lists among qualities an author could portray.

Cato

A figure whose wisdom the canon lists among qualities an author could portray.

the captive

Also known as Captain Viedma · Ruy Perez de Viedma

A Spanish soldier and former infantry captain enslaved in Algiers, who escaped with Zoraida and now travels with her toward his homeland. His brother, the Judge Juan Perez de Viedma, recognizes him at the inn; the brothers reunite, and the Judge welcomes Zoraida as his sister-in-law.

Hadji Morato

A wealthy, high-ranking Moor in Algiers and father of Zoraida, who now calls herself Maria. He is taken aboard the escape vessel, learns that Zoraida has become Christian, attempts to drown himself, and is released ashore.

the captive’s three comrades

Three unnamed Christian captives in Algiers who share the captive’s prison and join his escape plan with Zoraida. Two of them accompany him as he first meets Zoraida in the garden.

the Christian renegade from Murcia

Also known as the renegade · the captive’s Arabic-speaking friend

An unnamed renegade from Murcia who understands Arabic and helps the captive communicate with Zoraida. He organizes and leads the escape from Algiers, helps capture Hadji Morato, and later sets out for Granada to return to the Catholic Church.

the two Moorish lads who row

Two unnamed Moorish youths who row the renegade’s vessel during his voyages near Zoraida’s garden.

the twelve Spanish rowers

Twelve unnamed Spanish captives recruited to row the vessel during the escape from Algiers. They join the captive and the renegade in seizing the vessel and escaping.

the Moorish rowers captured in the escape

Also known as the Moorish rowers

Unnamed Moors aboard the escape vessel who are bound by the Christians when the vessel is seized. Zoraida pleads for their release, and they are set ashore with her father.

the French corsair captain

Also known as the captain

An unnamed French captain who fires on the captive’s vessel and takes its passengers aboard. He allows them to leave in a skiff near the Spanish coast and gives Zoraida forty gold crowns.

the French corsairs

Also known as the Frenchmen

Unnamed armed men aboard the French ship who plunder the escapees, including taking Zoraida’s jewels and anklets. Their captain ultimately lets the group leave in a skiff.

the young shepherd who raises the alarm

Also known as the young shepherd

An unnamed shepherd in Spain who mistakes the renegade and Zoraida, dressed in Moorish clothes, for an invading force and calls for help.

the mounted coast-guard

Also known as the fifty mounted men

Unnamed horsemen who respond to the shepherd’s alarm. They discover the party are Christian captives and carry them to Velez Malaga.

Pedro de Bustamante

Also known as the captive’s uncle

A mounted man who recognizes one of the released Christians as his nephew. He is the captive’s maternal uncle and welcomes the party to Velez Malaga.

the captive’s nephew

Also known as the young man recognized by Pedro de Bustamante

An unnamed Christian captive who recognizes Pedro de Bustamante, his uncle, among the mounted coast-guard at Velez Malaga.

the Judge’s servants

Also known as the four servants

Four unnamed servants sent by the Judge to find and bring his son home. They locate him at the inn and insist that he return to his father.

the student who informs Don Luis’s father

Also known as the student

An unnamed student to whom Don Luis confided his plans to follow Doña Clara. He tells Don Luis’s father, prompting the father to send servants after him.

the captive’s father

An unnamed man from a village in the mountains of Leon, formerly a soldier and given to spending freely. He divided his property among his three sons and advised them to choose careers in letters, trade, or royal military service; he is still alive and longs to know whether his eldest son, the captive, survived.

the captive’s second brother

The captive’s unnamed second brother, who chose trade and went to Peru. He became wealthy and sent money to his father and younger brother.

the captive’s youngest brother

The captive’s unnamed youngest brother, who chose the church or further study at Salamanca. He is the Judge Juan Perez de Viedma, who meets his long-lost eldest brother at the inn.

the Judge’s wife

Also known as the mother of Doña Clara

An unnamed woman who died giving birth to Doña Clara.

the muleteer at the inn

An unnamed muleteer who sleeps beside Don Luis and reports the dispute between him and his father’s servant to Don Fernando and the others.

the servant who finds Don Luis

Also known as one of Don Luis’s father’s servants

An unnamed servant of Don Luis’s father who finds him asleep at the inn and urges him to return home.

the gentleman who recognizes Don Pedro de Aguilar

Also known as Don Pedro de Aguilar’s brother

An unnamed gentleman at the inn who recognizes Don Pedro de Aguilar’s name and reports that his brother escaped, returned home, married, and has three children.

the two damsels of Luscinda

Two unnamed attendants who accompany Luscinda at her wedding.

the parish priest

An unnamed priest who performs the marriage ceremony for Luscinda and Don Fernando.

the captive’s brother in Peru

Also known as the second brother

The captive’s unnamed brother who went to Peru for trade, became wealthy, and sent money to his father and younger brother.

the muleteer’s beloved

Also known as Doña Clara

Doña Clara de Viedma, the Judge’s young daughter, who is in love with Don Luis, a nobleman travelling in disguise as a muleteer.

the captive’s maternal uncle

Also known as Pedro de Bustamante

Pedro de Bustamante, who recognizes his nephew among the released Christian captives and welcomes the group at Velez Malaga.

the other released captives

Also known as the Christian captives

Unnamed Christians freed in the escape from Algiers. They travel with the captive and Zoraida to Spain, then depart from Velez Malaga by different routes.

Lela Marien

Also known as the Virgin Mary · Our Lady

The Virgin Mary, whom Zoraida has learned about and prays to for help. Zoraida believes Lela Marien led her to become Christian.

the Turks who enter Hadji Morato’s garden

Also known as the four Turks

Four unnamed Turkish soldiers who climb over the garden wall to gather unripe fruit. Their arrival alarms Hadji Morato and Zoraida.

the Judge’s brother

Also known as the captive

The captive, a Spanish soldier and former captain who escaped Algiers with Zoraida. He is the Judge Juan Perez de Viedma’s eldest brother, and the two are joyfully reunited at the inn.

the singer’s father

Also known as Don Luis’s father

An unnamed wealthy gentleman of Aragon and father of Don Luis, his only heir. Distressed by his son’s disappearance, he sends four servants to find him.

the boat’s captain

Also known as the French corsair captain

An unnamed French captain who plunders the escaping Christians after sinking their vessel. He then gives them a skiff and some provisions, and gives Zoraida forty gold crowns.

the captain’s brother

Also known as the Judge’s brother · the captive

The captive, a Spanish soldier and former infantry captain who escaped Algiers with Zoraida. His younger brother, the Judge Juan Perez de Viedma, recognizes him at the inn and welcomes him warmly.

Palinurus

A legendary helmsman whose guiding star is mentioned in the song sung by Don Luis.

the Judge’s coachman

Also known as the squire

An unnamed attendant travelling with the Judge who asks the innkeeper for accommodation and identifies the Judge as his lord.

the four Turks’ captain

Also known as the captain of the Moorish rowers

An unnamed captain aboard the vessel seized by the Christians, who orders the Moorish rowers not to resist.

the squire accompanying the Judge

Also known as the Judge’s squire

An unnamed attendant of the Judge who speaks to the landlady when the party arrives at the crowded inn.

the three Moorish rowers

Also known as the Moorish rowers

Unnamed sailors captured aboard the vessel during the escape from Algiers. Zoraida asks for their release, and they are put ashore with her father.

the French ship’s crew

Also known as the Frenchmen

Unnamed armed sailors who sink and plunder the escapees’ vessel. They take Zoraida’s jewels but let the group leave in a skiff near Spain.

the coast-guard commander

Also known as Pedro de Bustamante

Pedro de Bustamante, a mounted man who recognizes his nephew among the released Christians at Velez Malaga.

Duke of Alva

Also known as the great Duke of Alva

A military commander whom the captive joins in Flanders after changing his plans to serve in Piedmont.

Count Egmont

Also known as the Counts Egmont

A count whose death the captive says he witnessed while serving in the campaigns in Flanders.

Count Horn

Also known as the Counts Horn

A count whose death the captive says he witnessed while serving in the campaigns in Flanders.

Diego de Urbina

A famous captain from Guadalajara under whom the captive serves as ensign.

Pope Pius V

Also known as his Holiness Pope Pius V

The pope who formed a league with Venice and Spain against the Ottoman Empire.

Don John of Austria

Also known as the Most Serene Don John of Austria · Don John

The natural brother of King Philip and commander-in-chief of the allied forces against the Ottoman Empire. The captive serves in the campaign under his command.

King Philip

Also known as Don Philip

The Spanish king and half-brother of Don John of Austria, mentioned by the captive.

El Uchali

Also known as Uchali Fartax · the king of Algiers

A Calabrian corsair and Ottoman admiral who captures the captive at the Battle of Lepanto. He later becomes king of Algiers and treats his slaves humanely; after his death the captive is inherited by Hassan Aga.

John Andrea Doria

Also known as John Andrea

A naval commander whose galley comes to the aid of the Maltese galley during the battle in which the captive is captured.

Selim

Also known as the Grand Turk

The Ottoman ruler who makes El Uchali a general at sea after the battle in which the captive is taken prisoner.

the three knights of Malta

Three unnamed knights who are the only survivors of the Maltese galley captured by El Uchali; they are badly wounded.

the son of Barbarossa

An unnamed corsair and captain of the galley called the Prize. His enslaved rowers kill him during its capture because of his cruelty.

Barbarossa

A famous corsair, named as the father of the captain of the galley called the Prize.

Don Álvaro de Bazan

Also known as Marquis of Santa Cruz

A celebrated Spanish admiral who commands the Neapolitan galley She-wolf when it captures the Prize.

Muley Hamet

A ruler installed by Don John of Austria in Tunis after its capture from the Turks.

Muley Hamida

A Moorish ruler described as cruel and brave, whose hopes of returning to rule Tunis are ended when Don John installs Muley Hamet.

Don Juan Zanoguera

A Valencian gentleman and soldier who commands a small fort in the lagoon near the Goletta; he capitulates on terms.

Don Pedro Puertocarrero

The commandant of the Goletta, taken prisoner when the fortress falls. He dies of grief while being carried to Constantinople.

Gabrio Cerbellon

A Milanese gentleman, engineer, and brave soldier who commands the fort near the Goletta and is taken prisoner.

Pagano Doria

A generous knight of the Order of St. John and brother of John Andrea Doria. Arabs kill him after offering to smuggle him to Tabarca.

the Arabs who betray Pagano Doria

Unnamed Arabs who promise to guide Pagano Doria to safety after the fort falls, then behead him and take his head to the Turkish fleet commander.

Don Pedro de Aguilar

Also known as the captive’s comrade

An Andalusian soldier and poet captured at the fort near the Goletta and enslaved alongside the captive. He composes sonnets on the fallen Goletta and fort, then escapes Constantinople in disguise with a Greek spy.

the Fratin

An engineer who built the new fortifications at the Goletta, which the Turks later demolish with mines.

Hassan Aga

A Venetian renegade who inherits the captive from El Uchali and becomes a wealthy, cruel king of Algiers.

the Valencian merchant

An unnamed Christian merchant in Algiers who arranges the captive’s ransom on credit, pledging to pay when the next ship arrives from Valencia.

the Spanish soldier something de Saavedra

Also known as something de Saavedra

A Spanish soldier enslaved in Algiers who undertakes daring attempts to regain his liberty. Hassan Aga treats him unusually leniently despite his exploits.

Arnaut Mami

Also known as the captive’s master

A master in Algiers and friend of Hadji Morato, to whom the captive belongs before his ransom.

the Greek spy

An unnamed Greek spy who escapes Constantinople with Don Pedro de Aguilar.

the Tagarin partner

Also known as the Tagarin

An unnamed Moor from Aragon who partners with the renegade to buy and operate a vessel, making their arrangement appear to be a trading venture.

the captive’s former master in Constantinople

Also known as the Grand Turk, Selim

Selim, the Ottoman ruler who takes the captive as a galley slave after the captive’s capture.

Lothario

Anselmo’s close friend and Camilla’s lover. After jealousy leads him to expose their affair to Anselmo, he helps Camilla escape to a convent, then leaves Florence and is later killed in a battle in Naples.

Camilla

Anselmo’s wife and Lothario’s lover. She and Lothario deceive Anselmo into believing she resisted him; when Leonela’s affair threatens to expose them, Camilla flees to a convent and later takes the veil after hearing Lothario has died.

Chloris

The invented name Anselmo gives to Lothario’s supposed beloved, under which Lothario composes verses praising Camilla. Camilla is the real subject of the verses.

Leonela

Camilla’s handmaid and confidante, who knows of Camilla’s affair with Lothario. She has an affair of her own with a young man and helps conceal it; when Anselmo discovers him, Leonela escapes and Camilla fears she will reveal their secret.

the young lover of Leonela

Also known as the man who leaves Anselmo’s house

An unnamed young man of good birth from Florence who is Leonela’s lover. He is seen leaving Anselmo’s house at daybreak and later escapes through Leonela’s window when Anselmo surprises them.

the sister of Lothario

An unnamed woman who is prioress of a convent. Lothario takes Camilla there for refuge.

the master of the house where Anselmo dies

An unnamed host who gives Anselmo a room at his house in the village. He finds Anselmo dead and reads his unfinished letter.

Anselmo’s relatives

Anselmo’s unnamed relatives, notified of his death by his host.

the citizen of Florence

An unnamed Florentine who tells Anselmo that the city believes Lothario has carried off Camilla and that both have disappeared.

the governor of Florence

An unnamed official who searches for Camilla and Lothario after Leonela escapes from Anselmo’s house.

the four companions of Don Fernando

Four unnamed gentlemen who accompany Don Fernando while he takes Luscinda from the convent. They later join the others in urging him to honor his promise to Dorothea.

the two attendants on foot

Two unnamed attendants who accompany Don Fernando’s party to the inn and lead the horses to the stable.

the nun speaking with Luscinda

An unnamed nun whom Luscinda is speaking with in the convent cloisters when Don Fernando and his companions seize her.

the convent porter

An unnamed porter at the convent whose open lodge allows Don Fernando and his companion to enter and take Luscinda away.

M. de Lautrec

Also known as Lautrec

A military commander whose recent battle in the kingdom of Naples is mentioned as the battle in which Lothario is killed.

Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova

Also known as the Great Captain

A military commander mentioned as fighting M. de Lautrec in the battle in which Lothario is killed.

Marcela

Also known as the Shepherdess Marcela

A wealthy shepherdess who freely rejects her many suitors, including Chrysostom. She insists on her independence and right to choose.

the dead shepherd

An unnamed shepherd whose despairing verses are included in the story.

Mambrino

The figure associated with the helmet sought by Don Quixote.

the muleteer

An unnamed muleteer whose story is named in the chapter headings.

the lively, clever friend

Also known as the author's friend

An unnamed friend who advises the preface’s narrator about the book’s preface and scholarly trappings.

the two young women at the inn

Also known as the girls of the district · the gay damsels · the ladies

Two unnamed local women traveling toward Seville. Don Quixote mistakes them for highborn ladies, and they assist in his knighting.

the swineherd

An unnamed swineherd whose horn blast Don Quixote mistakes for a castle announcement.

the sowgelder

An unnamed man who plays a reed pipe at the inn, which Don Quixote mistakes for welcoming music.

the greyhound

Don Quixote’s unnamed greyhound, kept for coursing.

the lad for the field and market-place

An unnamed boy in Don Quixote’s household who saddles the hack and handles the bill-hook.

Feliciano de Silva

A writer of books of chivalry admired by Don Quixote.

the Knight of Phœbus

Also known as Phœbus of Spain

A knight of romance praised by the barber and a speaker in commendatory verses.

Don Galaor

Also known as Galaor

Amadis of Gaul’s brother, praised for spirit and courage.

the Knight of the Burning Sword

A romance knight whom Don Quixote admires for cutting two giants in half with one stroke.

Bernardo del Carpio

A legendary hero whom Don Quixote admires for defeating Roland at Roncesvalles.

Ganelon

A figure whom Don Quixote calls a traitor and would like to kick.

Caraculiambro

A fictional giant whom Don Quixote imagines defeating and sending to Dulcinea.

Babieca

The Cid’s horse, who speaks with Rocinante in a sonnet.

Gandalin

Also known as Gandalin, squire of Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul’s squire, who addresses Sancho in a sonnet.

El Donoso, the Motley Poet

Also known as the Motley Poet

An unnamed poet who writes comic verses about Sancho and Rocinante.

Villadiego

Also known as the Si-

A figure cited in comic verse as having taught that retreat brings well-being.

Lazarillo

Also known as Lazaril-

A figure in a tale recalled in verse, where he tricks a blind man into drinking wine.

Solisdán

A knight who addresses Don Quixote in a sonnet.

the Duke of Béjar

Also known as the Marquis of Gibraleón · the Count of Benalcázar and Bañares · the Viscount of Puebla de Alcocer

The noble dedicatee of Part I, praised by Cervantes as a patron of the arts.

Álvaro de Luna

A historical figure named in a verse as an example of a potentially boastful dedication.

Hannibal

A historical general named in a verse as an example of a potentially boastful dedication.

King Francis

A king mentioned in a verse as an example of a potentially boastful dedication.

Prester John of the Indies

A legendary ruler whom the preface’s friend jokingly suggests as the supposed author of complimentary verses.

the Emperor of Trebizond

A ruler whom the preface’s friend jokingly suggests as a supposed author of verses; Don Quixote also imagines winning this title.

Aristotle

A philosopher repeatedly invoked in the text as a measure of learning.

Plato

A philosopher mentioned by the preface’s narrator among authorities commonly cited in books.

St. Thomas

Also known as St. Thomases

A church doctor invoked as an example of learned religious authority.

St. Basil

A church father whom the preface’s friend says had nothing to say about books of chivalry.

Xenophon

An ancient author named among authors commonly listed in books.

Zoilus

A slanderer named among authors commonly listed in books.

Zeuxis

A painter named among authors commonly listed in books.

David

Also known as the shepherd David

The biblical shepherd who slew Goliath, cited in an example of scholarly annotation.

Cacus

A mythological robber cited as a ready-made scholarly reference.

the Bishop of Mondonedo

A bishop whom the preface’s friend says could lend literary references.

Lamia

A woman from classical literature named as a possible scholarly reference.

Laida

A woman from classical literature named as a possible scholarly reference.

Flora

A woman from classical literature named as a possible scholarly reference.

Medea

A mythological figure suggested as a reference concerning hard-hearted people.

Calypso

A figure in Homer suggested as a reference concerning enchantresses.

Circe

A figure in Virgil suggested as a reference concerning enchantresses.

Plutarch

An ancient biographer said to supply examples of Alexanders.

Leon the Hebrew

An author recommended as a source on love.

Fonseca

The author of Of the Love of God, recommended as a source on love.

the blind man

An unnamed blind man in the Lazarillo anecdote, whom Lazarillo tricks into drinking less wine.

the first carrier

An unnamed carrier who tries to move Don Quixote’s armour and is struck down.

the second carrier

An unnamed carrier who also tries to clear the trough and is badly wounded.

the carrier's comrades

Unnamed companions of the wounded carriers who throw stones at Don Quixote.

the candle-bearing lad

An unnamed lad who carries a candle-end during Don Quixote’s knighting.

La Tolosa

Also known as Doña Tolosa

A woman at the inn, daughter of a Toledo cobbler, who girds Don Quixote’s sword and is asked to style herself Doña Tolosa.

La Molinera

Also known as Doña Molinera

A woman at the inn, daughter of a miller from Antequera, who buckles Don Quixote’s spur and is asked to style herself Doña Molinera.

the lusty farmer

An unnamed farmer who beats his servant Andres and withholds his wages.

Andres

Also known as Master Andres · brother Andres

A fifteen-year-old servant whom Juan Haldudo beats and owes wages. Don Quixote frees him, but Haldudo beats him again after Don Quixote leaves; Andres later blames Don Quixote for worsening his plight.

Juan Haldudo the Rich

Also known as Juan Haldudo

A farmer from Quintanar who employs Andres, owes him wages, and beats him.

the witty trader

An unnamed Toledo trader who challenges Don Quixote to show Dulcinea’s portrait.

the trader's muleteer

An unnamed muleteer who breaks his lance and beats Don Quixote after he falls.

the peasant neighbour

Also known as Pedro Alonso

Don Quixote’s neighbour, who finds him battered and carries him home on his ass.

the Marquis of Mantua

Baldwin’s uncle and liege lord in the ballad.

Carloto

The figure said in the ballad to have left Baldwin wounded.

Abindarraez

Also known as the Moor Abindarraez

A Moorish captive in a tale Don Quixote recalls.

Rodrigo de Narvaez

Also known as the Alcaide of Antequera · Señor Don Rodrigo de Narvaez

The Alcaide of Antequera who captures Abindarraez in the tale.

Xarifa

Also known as the fair Xarifa

A woman in the tale of Abindarraez whom Don Quixote identifies with Dulcinea.

Esquife

Also known as the sage Esquife

A magician whom Don Quixote imagines as a friend who supplied a healing potion.

Urganda

Also known as the wise Urganda

A wise enchantress whom Don Quixote asks to be summoned to heal him.

the Sage Friston

Also known as Friston · the Sage Muñaton · Friton

A magician whom Don Quixote blames for taking his library and transforming windmills into giants.

Briareus

Also known as the giant Briareus

A many-armed giant invoked by Don Quixote as he charges the windmills.

Diego Perez de Vargas

Also known as Vargas y Machuca

A Spanish knight said to have used an oak branch as a weapon after his sword broke.

the first friar

An unnamed Benedictine friar whom Don Quixote knocks from his mule.

the second friar

An unnamed Benedictine friar who flees when Don Quixote attacks his companion.

the friars' muleteers

Unnamed attendants who beat Sancho after he tries to claim a fallen friar’s robe.

the Biscayan lady

An unnamed woman from Biscay travelling to Seville to join her husband in the Indies.

the Biscayan squire

Also known as the Biscayan · Don Sancho de Azpeitia

A Biscayan who challenges Don Quixote; a manuscript illustration identifies him as Don Sancho de Azpeitia.

Baldwin's lady

Also known as the lady of the wounded knight

The unnamed lady addressed in the ballad Don Quixote recites.

the Emperor's son

An unnamed emperor’s son mentioned in the ballad.

the wife of the Marquis of Mantua

An unnamed woman mentioned in the ballad as involved in the loves of the Emperor’s son.

the author of the Salamancan Diana

Also known as the Salamancan

An unnamed Salamancan author of a continuation of Diana.

the wise king of Portugal

An unnamed king of Portugal reputed to have written Palmerin of England.

the author of the Tears of Angelica

An unnamed poet praised for The Tears of Angelica and translating Ovid’s fables.

Queen Pintiquiniestra

A queen named in the curate’s condemnation of the Amadis romances.

Darinel

Also known as the shepherd Darinel

A shepherd whose eclogues are mentioned in discussion of books associated with Amadis.

Matteo Boiardo

An Italian poet credited with an invention that inspired later romances.

Don Kyrieleison of Montalvan

A valiant knight in Tirante el Blanco.

Thomas of Montalvan

The brother of Don Kyrieleison of Montalvan.

the knight Fonseca

A knight mentioned among the characters in Tirante el Blanco.

Placerdemivida

Also known as the damsel Placerdemivida

A damsel whose witticisms are praised by the curate.

the widow Reposada

Also known as Reposada

A widow whose loves and wiles are mentioned in the account of Tirante el Blanco.

Hipolito

Also known as the squire Hipolito

A squire loved by the empress in Tirante el Blanco.

the empress in Tirante el Blanco

Also known as the empress

An empress who is in love with the squire Hipolito.

Jorge de Montemayor

The author of Diana, a book Don Quixote has read.

Gil Polo

The author of a second Diana, which the curate decides to preserve.

Antonio de Lofraso

A Sardinian poet who wrote The Fortune of Love.

Don Alonso de Ercilla

A poet and author of Araucana, praised by the curate.

Juan Rufo

Also known as Juan Rufo, Justice of Cordova

The Justice of Cordova and author of Austriada.

Christobal de Virués

Also known as the Valencian poet

A Valencian poet and author of Montserrate.

Don Luis de Ávila

The author of The Deeds of the Emperor, possibly burned during the scrutiny of Don Quixote’s library.

the boy selling papers

An unnamed boy in Toledo who sells Arabic pamphlets and old papers.

the silk mercer

An unnamed Toledo silk merchant to whom the boy offers Arabic papers.

the Morisco translator

An unnamed Spanish-speaking Morisco hired to translate the Arabic history into Castilian.

the goatherds

Unnamed goatherds who welcome Don Quixote and Sancho and tell them about Chrysostom and Marcela.

Antonio

A young goatherd and musician who sings a ballad about Olalla.

Olalla

The woman Antonio loves and addresses in his ballad.

Teresa of the hillside

A woman who mocks Antonio’s praise of Olalla.

the cousin of Teresa of the hillside

An unnamed man who challenges Antonio after he calls Teresa’s criticism a lie.

the prebendary uncle of Antonio

An unnamed prebendary and Antonio’s uncle, who wrote the ballad Antonio sings.

the young goatherd who brings news

An unnamed young man who reports Chrysostom’s death and burial wishes.

Chrysostom

Also known as the student-shepherd · the dead shepherd

A wealthy, learned former student turned shepherd and poet. He loved Marcela, who rejected him; his death prompts the shepherds’ gathering.

Ambrosio

Also known as the student Ambrosio

Chrysostom’s close friend and former fellow student, who insists that Chrysostom’s burial wishes be followed.

Pedro

Also known as the goatherd Pedro

A goatherd who tells Don Quixote the story of Chrysostom and Marcela; distinct from Pedro Alonso.

Guillermo the Rich

Also known as Guillermo

Marcela’s wealthy father, who died of grief after his wife’s death.

the mother of Marcela

Marcela’s unnamed mother, who died when Marcela was born.

the uncle of Marcela

Marcela’s unnamed priest and prebendary uncle, who raised her and left marriage to her choice.

the six shepherds in mourning

Unnamed shepherds dressed in black who accompany Chrysostom’s burial procession.

Vivaldo

Also known as Señor Vivaldo

A perceptive traveller who questions Don Quixote and reads Chrysostom’s lay.

Vivaldo’s travelling companion

An unnamed man travelling with Vivaldo who accompanies the party to the burial.

the travelling servants

Three unnamed servants accompanying the two gentlemen on horseback to Chrysostom’s burial.

King Arthur

Also known as King Artus

The legendary British king whom Don Quixote says was transformed into a raven and will return.

Zerbino

A knight whose challenge about Roland’s arms is quoted by Don Quixote.

Augustus Caesar

Also known as Augustus Cæsar

The Roman emperor cited by Vivaldo as an example concerning an unreasonable will.

Tantalus

A figure from the underworld invoked in Chrysostom’s lay.

Sisyphus

A figure from the underworld invoked in Chrysostom’s lay.

Tityus

A figure from the underworld invoked in Chrysostom’s lay.

Ixion

A figure from the underworld invoked in Chrysostom’s lay.

the carrier at the inn

Also known as the rich carrier of Arévalo

An unnamed carrier lodged at the inn who attacks Don Quixote after finding him with Maritornes.

the cuadrillero

Also known as the officer · the caudrillero

An unnamed officer of the Old Holy Brotherhood of Toledo who investigates the inn disturbance and strikes Don Quixote with a lamp.

the four woolcarders

Four unnamed woolcarders from Segovia who help toss Sancho in a blanket.

the three needle-makers

Three unnamed needle-makers from Cordova who help toss Sancho in a blanket.

the two lodgers from the Fair of Seville

Two unnamed lodgers who help toss Sancho in a blanket.

Pedro Martinez

One of the men Sancho hears named among those who tossed him in a blanket.

Tenorio Hernandez

One of the men Sancho hears named among those who tossed him in a blanket.

Alifanfaron

Also known as the emperor of Trapobana

An imaginary pagan emperor whom Don Quixote believes leads one of two armies.

Pentapolin of the Bare Arm

Also known as the king of the Garamantas · Pentapolin Garamanta

An imaginary Christian king whom Don Quixote believes leads the opposing army.

the daughter of Pentapolin

An unnamed Christian princess whom Alifanfaron is said to love.

Laurcalco

Also known as the lord of the Silver Bridge

An imaginary knight whom Don Quixote describes as leading part of an imagined army.

Micocolembo

Also known as the grand duke of Quirocia

An imaginary knight named among the leaders of an imagined army.

Brandabarbaran de Boliche

Also known as the lord of the three Arabias

An imaginary giant knight described by Don Quixote.

Timonel of Carcajona

Also known as the prince of New Biscay

An imaginary knight whom Don Quixote believes leads an opposing army.

Miaulina

Also known as the peerless Miaulina

The imagined lady of Timonel of Carcajona and daughter of Duke Alfeniquen.

Alfeniquen of the Algarve

Also known as the duke Alfeniquen

An imaginary duke whom Don Quixote names as Miaulina’s father.

Pierres Papin

Also known as the lord of the baronies of Utrique

An imaginary French novice knight described among the supposed armies.

Espartafilardo del Bosque

Also known as the duke of Nerbia

An imaginary knight whom Don Quixote describes riding a striped zebra.

Arcalaus the magician

Also known as Arcalaus

A magician and enemy of Amadis of Gaul who once held and beat him captive, according to Don Quixote.

Alonzo Lopez

Also known as Bachelor Alonzo Lopez · Sir Bachelor Alonzo Lopez

A bachelor and cleric from Alcobendas whose leg Don Quixote breaks while mistaking a funeral party for phantoms.

the dead gentleman from Baeza

An unnamed gentleman who died of fever in Baeza and is carried to Segovia for burial.

Lope Ruiz

A goatherd in Sancho’s tale who falls out of love with Torralva and leaves Estremadura.

Torralva

Also known as the shepherdess Torralva

A rich grazier’s daughter who follows Lope Ruiz toward Portugal after he rejects her.

the rich grazier

Torralva’s unnamed wealthy father.

the fisherman in Sancho’s tale

An unnamed fisherman who agrees to ferry Lope Ruiz and his flock across the Guadiana.

Cato Zonzorino

Also known as Cato

A Roman figure whom Sancho cites for a saying about evil befalling those who seek it.

Brocabruno

Also known as the gigantic Brocabruno of mighty strength

A giant in Don Quixote’s imagined account of the fame he expects to win.

the great Mameluke of Persia

Also known as the Mameluke of Persia

A figure in Don Quixote’s imagined tale, held in a long enchantment.

the king in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure

Also known as the king of that kingdom · my lord the king

An unnamed king in Don Quixote’s imagined romance, whose daughter marries the knight.

the princess in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure

Also known as the king’s daughter · the princess

An unnamed princess in Don Quixote’s imagined romance who marries the knight and inherits her father’s kingdom.

the confidante damsel in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure

Also known as the go-between · the princess’s confidante

An unnamed trusted damsel who helps the princess communicate with the knight.

the dwarf in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure

Also known as the hideous and diminutive dwarf

An unnamed dwarf who announces an adventure in Don Quixote’s imagined romance.

the fair dame in Don Quixote’s imagined adventure

Also known as the fair dame

An unnamed woman who accompanies the dwarf in Don Quixote’s imagined romance.

Gasabal

Galaor’s squire, cited by Don Quixote as a model of silence.

the mounted guards of the galley chain

Also known as the guards

Unnamed mounted escorts of condemned prisoners bound for the king’s galleys.

the foot guards of the galley chain

Unnamed foot escorts armed with javelins and swords who accompany the galley slaves.

the first galley slave

An unnamed young man sentenced to the galleys for stealing linen.

the second galley slave

An unnamed prisoner sentenced to the galleys for cattle theft after confessing under torture.

the third galley slave

An unnamed prisoner sentenced to the galleys for lacking money to bribe officials.

the elderly galley slave

Also known as the fourth galley slave

An unnamed white-bearded man sent to the galleys for four years; he admits to pimping but denies sorcery.

the galley slave who speaks for the elderly prisoner

Also known as the fifth galley slave

An unnamed prisoner who explains the elderly man’s sentence.

the student galley slave

An unnamed young scholar sentenced to the galleys after tangled relations with cousins; he strikes Don Quixote with a basin.

the commissary

Also known as the señor commissary

An unnamed officer in charge of the galley prisoners, wounded when Don Quixote attacks.

the goatherd in the Sierra Morena

Also known as the goatherd

An unnamed older goatherd who tells Don Quixote and Sancho about Cardenio and helps feed him.

the four lads searching for Cardenio

Four unnamed men who plan to find Cardenio and take him to Almodóvar.

the father of Luscinda

Luscinda’s unnamed father, who favours Don Fernando’s suit and had required Cardenio’s father to formally ask for her hand.

the father of Cardenio

Cardenio’s unnamed wealthy father, who sends him to serve as companion to Duke Ricardo’s eldest son.

Duke Ricardo

Also known as the Duke

A Spanish grandee and father of Don Fernando and an elder son. He invites Cardenio into his household.

the author of the sonnet and letters

An unnamed lover who wrote the sonnet and love letters found in the valise; the text does not establish that he is Cardenio.

Chloe

The woman addressed in the sonnet found in the valise; her identity is not established.

Master Elisabad

Also known as Elisabad

A prudent governor and physician to Queen Madasima. Don Quixote defends his honour against Cardenio’s accusation.

Beltenebros

The name Amadis of Gaul adopts while doing penance after Oriana rejects him.

Guisopete

A name Sancho uses for the author of fables in which animals speak.

Astolfo

A romance figure whose hippogriff Don Quixote compares unfavourably with Rocinante.

Frontino

A famed horse whose speed Don Quixote says cannot equal Rocinante’s.

Bradamante

The romance heroine for whom Frontino was costly to obtain.

Lorenzo Corchuelo

Dulcinea’s father, named by Don Quixote and Sancho.

Aldonza Nogales

Dulcinea’s mother, named by Don Quixote.

the widow in Don Quixote’s tale

An unnamed wealthy, young widow who falls in love with a sturdy lay-brother.

the lay-brother in Don Quixote’s tale

Also known as So-and-so

An unnamed sturdy young lay-brother whom the widow loves; his superior considers him a poor match.

the superior of the lay-brother

An unnamed superior who questions the widow about her choice of lover.

the schoolmaster

An unnamed village schoolmaster whom Sancho might ask to copy Don Quixote’s letter.

Marius

Also known as Marius

A historical figure invoked by Cardenio in a lament about betrayal and misfortune.

Catiline

A Roman figure invoked by Cardenio in his lament.

Sylla

A Roman figure invoked by Cardenio in his lament.

Vellido

A treacherous figure invoked by Cardenio in his lament.

Julian

A vindictive figure invoked by Cardenio in his lament.

Judas

A covetous figure invoked by Cardenio in his lament.

Theseus

A mythic hero whose labyrinth clue Don Quixote compares to Sancho’s trail of branches.

Lucretia

A famous woman of antiquity whom Don Quixote says is surpassed by Dulcinea.