Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

through the mediation of the Holy Inquisition,

the devil, who never sleeps, willed the arrival at the inn of the barber from whom Don Quixote had taken the helmet of Mambrino,

Haha

Don Thief,

Morgante

Perhaps he painted a rooster in such a fashion and so unrealistically that he had to write beside it, in capital letters: ‘This is a rooster.’

And that must be how my history is: a commentary will be necessary in order to understand it.”

Señora Princess Micomicona,

Ginés de Pasamonte,

“Good news, Señores! I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha but Alonso Quixano,

Translation copyright. © 2003 by Edith Grossman;

introduction copyright © 2003 by Harold Bloom.

Haha - mocking pedantry.

Born of n arrived love between King Perión of Gaula and Elisena of England; Abandoned at birth on a raft in England, the child is raised by the knight Gandales in Scotland and investigates his origins through fantastic adventures; He is persecuted by the wizard Arcaláus, but protected by Urganda la Desconocida (Urganda the Unknown or Unrecognized), an ambiguous priestess with magical powers and a talent for prophecy. Knighted by his father King Perión, Amadís overcomes the challenges of the enchanted Ínsola Firme (a sort of peninsula), including passing through the Arch of Faithful Lovers. And father of a child, Esplandián, of his unmarried love his childhood sweetheart, Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amad%C3%ADs_de_Gaula

Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel (1554), Lazarillo manages to steal wine from his blind master, who refuses to allow him to drink, by surreptitiously inserting a straw into the jug of wine.

Or another mock at Don Quixote’s ineptness.

Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato

Cervantes disliked the Spanish translations of Ariosto,

Did Cervantes read Italian? Question

enchanter Frestón

Oversight? Or is there a humorous reason? Question

Never edited? Fir new printings?

Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,

Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato,

The listing of combatants appears to be a brief detour by Cervantes into the world of the epic poem.

The names in this section suggest ludicrous associations:

I see why Cervantes wants ludicrous associations,but why does Don Quixote? If he is (trying to) (pretending to) use name for the stories, does he not recognize how ludicrous they are?