Don Álvaro Tarfe

Also known as: Don Álvaro / Señor Don Álvaro Tarfe · Role: traveller · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 72.1

Life events

• Don Álvaro reveals that the Don Quixote and Sancho in print are impostors unlike the pair before him.(Part 2, Ch. 72.1)
  • With: Don Quixote Sancho Panza
  • “But I don’t know what to say, for I am ready to swear I left him shut up in the Casa del Nuncio at Toledo, and here another Don Quixote turns up, though a very different one from mine.”
• Don Álvaro Tarfe formally declares that he never saw Don Quixote and that he is not the printed impostor.(Part 2, Ch. 72.2 · 📍 the inn)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “The declaration was made with all the formalities required in such cases, at which Don Quixote and Sancho were in high delight”
• Don Álvaro is disabused of his mistaken belief after encountering the two opposing Don Quixotes.(Part 2, Ch. 72.2)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “Many civilities and offers of service were exchanged by Don Álvaro and Don Quixote, in the course of which the great Manchegan displayed such good taste that he disabused Don Álvaro of the error he was under”
• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza part ways with Don Álvaro as each takes a different road.(Part 2, Ch. 72.3)
  • With: Don Quixote Sancho Panza
  • “Don Álvaro was to follow. In this short interval Don Quixote told him of his unfortunate defeat, and of Dulcinea’s enchantment and the remedy, all which threw Don Álvaro into fresh amazement, and embracing Don Quixote and Sancho, he went his way, and Don Quixote went his.”

Part 2, Ch. 72.1

• friends with Don Quixote “I am the same,” replied the gentleman; “and that same Don Quixote, the principal personage in the said history, was a very great friend of mine, and it was I who took him away from home, or at least induced him to come to some jousts that were to be held at Saragossa, whither I was going myself; indeed, I showed him many kindnesses, and saved him from having his shoulders touched up by the executioner because of his extreme rashness.”
• protégé: Don Quixote “I am the same,” replied the gentleman; “and that same Don Quixote, the principal personage in the said history, was a very great friend of mine, and it was I who took him away from home, or at least induced him to come to some jousts that were to be held at Saragossa, whither I was going myself; indeed, I showed him many kindnesses, and saved him from having his shoulders touched up by the executioner because of his extreme rashness.”

Part 2, Ch. 72.2

• friends with Don Quixote “By this dinner-time arrived, and Don Quixote and Don Álvaro dined together.”

Part 2, Ch. 72.3

• friends with Don Quixote “embracing Don Quixote and Sancho, he went his way, and Don Quixote went his.”
• friends with Sancho Panza “embracing Don Quixote and Sancho, he went his way, and Don Quixote went his.”

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