Ambrosio

Role: student-shepherd · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 12.1

Life events

Ambrosio insists that Chrysostom’s burial directions be followed despite clerical opposition.(Part 1, Ch. 12.1 · 📍 the village)
- With: Chrysostom
- “Ambrosio the student, he who, like him, also went dressed as a shepherd, replies that everything must be done without any omission according to the directions left by Chrysostom”
Chrysostom and Ambrosio exchange their scholarly clothing for shepherd’s dress.(Part 1, Ch. 12.1)
- With: Chrysostom
- “not many months had passed after he returned from Salamanca, when one day he appeared dressed as a shepherd with his crook and sheepskin, having put off the long gown he wore as a scholar; and at the same time his great friend, Ambrosio by name, who had been his companion in his studies, took to the shepherd’s dress with him”
Chrysostom’s body is brought for burial at his chosen resting place.(Part 1, Ch. 13.3)
- With: Chrysostom
- “Those who come there are the bearers of Chrysostom’s body, and the foot of that mountain is the place where he ordered them to bury him.”
Ambrosio permits some of Chrysostom’s papers to be taken but intends to burn the rest.(Part 1, Ch. 13.3)
- With: Chrysostom
- “Out of courtesy, señor, I will grant your request as to those you have taken, but it is idle to expect me to abstain from burning the remainder.”

friends with Chrysostom “To all which his great friend Ambrosio the student, he who, like him, also went dressed as a shepherd, replies that everything must be done without any omission according to the directions left by Chrysostom”

friends with Chrysostom (Ambrosio explicitly calls Chrysostom his friend.) “This is the place,” answered Ambrosio “for in it many a time did my poor friend tell me the story of his hard fortune.”
mentor: Vivaldo (Vivaldo advises Ambrosio not to destroy Chrysostom's writings.) “So that, Señor Ambrosio while you consign your friend’s body to the earth, you should not consign his writings to oblivion, for if he gave the order in bitterness of heart, it is not right that you should irrationally obey it.”
with Vivaldo (Ambrosio grants Vivaldo permission to keep the papers he has taken.) “Out of courtesy, señor, I will grant your request as to those you have taken, but it is idle to expect me to abstain from burning the remainder.”

friends with Chrysostom (Ambrosio is explicitly described as knowing his friend's secret thoughts, and identifies that friend as Chrysostom.) “to which Ambrosio replied as one who knew well his friend’s most secret thoughts, “Señor, to remove that doubt I should tell you that when the unhappy man wrote this lay he was away from Marcela, from whom he had voluntarily separated himself, to try if absence would act with him as it is wont;”
enemies with Marcela (Ambrosio confronts and condemns Marcela over Chrysostom's death.) “But the instant Ambrosio saw her he addressed her, with manifest indignation: ‘Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched being thy cruelty has robbed of life’”

friends with Chrysostom “Whether it was because of the threats of Don Quixote, or because Ambrosio told them to fulfil their duty to their good friend, none of the shepherds moved or stirred from the spot until, having finished the grave and burned Chrysostom’s papers, they laid his body in it, not without many tears from those who stood by.”

Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.