Don Luis

Also known as: Señor Don Luis · Family: noble family · Role: youth and lover of Doña Clara · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 44.1

Life events

• Don Luis is discovered asleep and seized by his father’s servants, who demand his return home.(Part 1, Ch. 44.1)
  • “one of whom found the youth they were seeking lying asleep by the side of a muleteer, without a thought of anyone coming in search of him, much less finding him.”
• Don Luis refuses to return to his father despite the servants’ demand to take him back.(Part 1, Ch. 44.2 · 📍 the inn)
  • “He replied that he could not do so on any account until he had concluded some business in which his life, honour, and heart were at stake.”
• Don Luis is recognized as the judge’s son who fled his father’s house in disguise.(Part 1, Ch. 44.2 · 📍 the inn)
  • “He is the son of your neighbour, who has run away from his father’s house in a dress so unbecoming his rank, as your worship may perceive.”
• Don Luis proposes marriage to Doña Clara and asks the Judge to accept him as a son.(Part 1, Ch. 44.3 · 📍 the inn)
  • With: Doña Clara de Viedma Juan Perez de Viedma
  • “from that instant I made her the mistress of my will, and if yours, my true lord and father, offers no impediment, this very day she shall become my wife.”
• Don Luis reveals that he left home disguised to follow Doña Clara.(Part 1, Ch. 44.3 · 📍 the inn)
  • With: Doña Clara de Viedma
  • “For her I left my father’s house, and for her I assumed this disguise, to follow her whithersoever she may go”
• The Judge postpones his decision and tells Don Luis to delay returning with his servants.(Part 1, Ch. 44.3 · 📍 the inn)
  • With: Juan Perez de Viedma
  • “All the answer, therefore, he gave him was to bid him to make his mind easy for the present, and arrange with his servants not to take him back that day”
• Don Luis’s servants agree that he will accompany Don Fernando to Andalusia while one servant remains with him.(Part 1, Ch. 45.2)
  • With: Don Fernando Cardenio
  • “It was agreed at length that Don Fernando should tell the servants of Don Luis who he was, and that it was his desire that Don Luis should accompany him to Andalusia”
• Don Luis’s servants agree that three will return while one accompanies him at Don Fernando’s direction.(Part 1, Ch. 46.1)
  • With: Don Fernando Doña Clara de Viedma
  • “the servants agreed to do as Don Luis wished; which gave Doña Clara such happiness that no one could have looked into her face just then without seeing the joy of her heart.”

Part 1, Ch. 44.1

• courtship with Doña Clara de Viedma (The youth subsequently identified as Don Luis is described as Doña Clara's lover.) “They then asked the landlord if by any chance a youth of about fifteen years of age had come to that inn, one dressed like a muleteer, and of such and such an appearance, describing that of Doña Clara’s lover.”

Part 1, Ch. 44.2

• patron: Juan Perez de Viedma “The judge on this looked at him more carefully and recognised him, and embracing him said, ‘What folly is this, Señor Don Luis, or what can have been the cause that could have induced you to come here in this way, and in this dress, which so ill becomes your condition?’”

Part 1, Ch. 44.3

• admired: Doña Clara de Viedma “from the moment when, through heaven’s will and our being near neighbours, I first saw Doña Clara, your daughter and my lady, from that instant I made her the mistress of my will, and if yours, my true lord and father, offers no impediment, this very day she shall become my wife.”
• with Juan Perez de Viedma (Don Luis asks the Judge to accept him as a son in connection with his proposed marriage to Doña Clara.) “accept me at once as your son; for if my father, influenced by other objects of his own, should disapprove of this happiness I have sought for myself, time has more power to alter and change things, than human will.”

Part 1, Ch. 45.2

• patron: Don Fernando (Don Fernando supports Don Luis during the conflict.) “Don Luis cried out to his servants to leave him alone and go and help Don Quixote, and Cardenio and Don Fernando, who were supporting him;”
• patron: Cardenio (Cardenio supports Don Luis during the conflict.) “Don Luis cried out to his servants to leave him alone and go and help Don Quixote, and Cardenio and Don Fernando, who were supporting him;”
• patron: Juan Perez de Viedma (The Judge takes Don Luis’s side in the dispute.) “Don Luis gave one of his servants, who ventured to catch him by the arm to keep him from escaping, a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood; the Judge took his part;”

Part 1, Ch. 46.1

• courtship with Doña Clara de Viedma “for the servants agreed to do as Don Luis wished; which gave Doña Clara such happiness that no one could have looked into her face just then without seeing the joy of her heart.”

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