Vicente de la Roca

Role: returned soldier · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 51.1

Life events

• Vicente de la Roca returns to his town after twelve years of military service.(Part 1, Ch. 51.1)
  • “About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having returned from service as a soldier in Italy and divers other parts.”
• Leandra left her father's house and disappeared from the village with Vicente de la Roca.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
  • With: Leandra
  • “Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier”
• Leandra confessed that Vicente had deceived her under promise of marrying her.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
  • With: Leandra
  • “she confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her father’s house”

Part 1, Ch. 51.1

• with the goatherd (The goatherd recounts Vicente de la Roca's return to their town.) “About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having returned from service as a soldier in Italy and divers other parts.”

Part 1, Ch. 51.2

• engaged with Leandra (Their relationship involved a promise of marriage.) “Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier”
• enemies with Leandra (Vicente deceived, robbed, and confined Leandra.) “she confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her father’s house, as he meant to take her to the richest and most delightful city in the whole world, which was Naples; and that she, ill-advised and deluded, had believed him, and robbed her father, and handed over all to him the night she disappeared; and that he had carried her away to a rugged mountain and shut her up in the cave where they had found her”

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