the countess Trifaldi

Also known as: the Distressed One / the Trifaldi / the bearded countess · Role: countess · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 40.2

Life events

• Don Quixote promises to cure the bearded sufferers and serve the countess Trifaldi.(Part 2, Ch. 40.1)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “I will pluck out my own in the land of the Moors,” said Don Quixote, “if I don’t cure yours.”
• Don Quixote accepts the countess Trifaldi’s request and commits himself to her service.(Part 2, Ch. 40.1)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “There shall be no delay on my part,” said Don Quixote.”
• The countess Trifaldi reveals that Malambruno will send a magical wooden horse for the rescuing knight.(Part 2, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 the kingdom of Kandy)
  • With: Malambruno
  • “You must know, too, that Malambruno told me that, whenever fate provided the knight our deliverer, he himself would send him a steed far better and with less tricks than a post-horse; for he will be that same wooden horse on which the valiant Pierres carried off the fair Magalona;”

Part 2, Ch. 40.2

• patron: Sancho Panza (Sancho resolves to help the distressed countess and the other duennas.) “The Trifaldi said this in such a pathetic way that she drew tears from the eyes of all and even Sancho’s filled up; and he resolved in his heart to accompany his master to the uttermost ends of the earth, if so be the removal of the wool from those venerable countenances depended upon it.”
• patron: Don Quixote (Don Quixote undertakes to defend the distressed duennas.) “I trust in Heaven that it will look with kindly eyes upon your troubles, for Sancho will do as I bid him. Only let Clavileño come and let me find myself face to face with Malambruno, and I am certain no razor will shave you more easily than my sword shall shave Malambruno’s head off his shoulders”
• enemies with Malambruno (Malambruno's enchantment has caused the countess's misfortune.) “O giant Malambruno, though thou art an enchanter, thou art true to thy promises. Send us now the peerless Clavileño, that our misfortune may be brought to an end; for if the hot weather sets in and these beards of ours are still there, alas for our lot!”

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