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Is there anybody who remember the name of Don Quixote sword? I can't fint it and it's make me crazy! ;)

Plony Den Haag I don't know yet if Don Q. named his sword (he does have one!). But on page 96 of the Dover edition of the 1755 Tobias Smollett translation, Sancho Pa…moreI don't know yet if Don Q. named his sword (he does have one!). But on page 96 of the Dover edition of the 1755 Tobias Smollett translation, Sancho Pancha does name his own sword. He calls it Toledo and the translators note says: "Tizona, which is the word in the original, is a romantic name given to the sword that belonged to Roderick Diaz de Bivar, the famous Spanish general against the Moors".(less)

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Don Chisciotte della Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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