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ID: 901001016
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001016
Record Type: Character/Person

Quixote, Don (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)

Note: Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the 17th-century novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. An aging minor nobleman named Alonso Quixano, enamoured by chivalric romances, sets out from his home village of La Mancha on a quest for adventure.

Display Date: first published 1605

Names:
Quixote, Don (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605) (preferred,English-P,N)
Don Quixote (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605) (English,A,N)
Don Quijote (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605) (English,U,N)
Quixano, Alonso (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605) (undetermined-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Literary characters> (P)
........Quixote, Don (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Don Quixote
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.), Don Quixote (novel, Cervantes, 1605-1615)) [901001136]
partner of .... Panza, Sancho
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Panza, Sancho (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)) [901001106]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... literary characters
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... noblemen
.....(nobles by gender, nobles (aristocrats), aristocrats, people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
author is .... Cervantes, Miguel de (Spanish author, 1547-1616)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
located in .... EspaƱa
.....(Europe) (TGN)
culture/religion is .... Spanish (culture or style)
.....(European regions, European, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Quixote, Don (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (1995)
Don Quixote (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Don Quijote (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Quixano, Alonso (Spanish literary character, Cervantes, 1605)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (1995)
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote#/media/File:Don_Quijote_and_Sancho_Panza.jpg

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