1.1.36
Don Quixote 1.1.36 · Don Quijote de la Mancha1.1.36Don Quijote de la Mancha
Following Amadís, he adds his homeland to his name, and the full name of the book’s hero is complete.
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así1
a·SÍ
so
quiso5
QUI·so
wanted
, como2
CO·mo
like
buen3
buen
a good
caballero4
ca·ba·LLE·ro
knight
, añadir6
a·ña·DIR
to add
al7
al
toto the
suyo8
SU·yo
his own
el9
el
the
nombre10
NOM·bre
name
de11
de
of
la12
la
the
suya13
SU·ya
his own
y14
y
and
llamarse15
lla·MAR·se
call himself
don16
don
Don
Quijote17
qui·JO·te
Quixote
de18
de
of
la19
la
La
Mancha20
MAN·cha
Mancha
, con21
con
bywith
que22
que
which
, a23
a
in
su24
su
his
parecer25
pa·re·CER
opinionseeming
, declaraba26
de·cla·RA·ba
showeddeclared
muy27
muy
very
al28
al
toto the
vivo29
VI·vo
the lifeliving
su30
su
his
linaje31
li·NA·je
lineage
y32
y
and
patria33
PA·tria
homeland
, y34
y
and
la35
la
it
honraba36
hon·RA·ba
honored
con37
con
by
tomar38
to·MAR
taking
el39
el
the
sobrenombre40
so·bre·NOM·bre
surnameadded name
della41
DE·lla
from itof it
. so, like a good knight, he wanted to add to his own the name of his own land and call himself Don Quixote de la Mancha, by which, in his opinion, he declared very vividly his lineage and homeland, and honored it by taking the surname from it.
so, like a good knight, he wanted to add to his own the name of his own land and call himself Don Quixote de la Mancha, by which, in his opinion, he declared very vividly his lineage and homeland, and honored it by taking the surname from it.
Interpretation
so, like a good knight, he chose to add the name of his own land to his and call himself don Quijote de la Mancha, which, to his mind, declared his lineage and homeland to the life, and honored the place by taking his surname from it.
The full name arrives at last, built on the pattern of Amadís de Gaula. Where Amadís had a kingdom of romance, this knight has La Mancha, a dry plain of wheat fields, vineyards and windmills that no romance had ever made famous. The book’s own title, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, puts the two together: a country gentleman and the knight he has decided to be.
Today a sobrenombre is a nickname. Here it is a name added after one’s own, the way de la Mancha follows Quijote as de Gaula follows Amadís.
Charles Robert Leslie, Dulcinea del Toboso (1839), Victoria and Albert Museum · public domain
1.1.37
Don Quixote 1.1.37 · A knight without a lady1.1.37A knight without a lady
Armor mended, horse named, his own name chosen: one thing is still missing.
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His arms cleaned, then, having made out of the morion a closed helmet, given a name to his nag and confirmed himself, he made himself believe that he lacked nothing else but to look for a lady to fall in love with; because a knight-errant without love was a tree without leaves and without fruit and a body without a soul. He said to himself: