Casildea de Vandalia

Also known as: the fair Casildea de Vandalia · Role: beloved of the Knight of the Grove · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 12.2

Life events

Samson Carrasco, disguised as the Knight of the Grove, declares his suffering love for Casildea de Vandalia.(Part 2, Ch. 12.2)
- With: Samson Carrasco
- “O fairest and most ungrateful woman on earth! What! can it be, most serene Casildea de Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils?”
Casildea de Vandalia commands Samson Carrasco, disguised as the Knight of the Grove, to undertake repeated perils.(Part 2, Ch. 14.1)
- With: Samson Carrasco
- “This same Casildea, then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and gentle aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in many perils of various sorts”
Samson Carrasco concedes Dulcinea’s superiority and promises to visit her and report back to Don Quixote.(Part 2, Ch. 14.3)
- With: Samson Carrasco Don Quixote Dulcinea del Toboso
- “‘I confess,’ said the fallen knight, ‘that the dirty tattered shoe of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso is better than the ill-combed though clean beard of Casildea; and I promise to go and to return from her presence to yours, and to give you a full and particular account of all you demand of me.’”

admirer: Samson Carrasco “O fairest and most ungrateful woman on earth! What! can it be, most serene Casildea de Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils?”

courtship with Samson Carrasco “‘He is,’ said of the Grove, ‘with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best roasted lady the whole world could produce; but that rawness is not the only foot he limps on, for he has greater schemes rumbling in his bowels, as will be seen before many hours are over.’”
admirer: Samson Carrasco (The Knight of the Grove is identified with Samson Carrasco; the passage associates him with Casildea as his lady.) “‘He is,’ said of the Grove, ‘with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best roasted lady the whole world could produce; but that rawness is not the only foot he limps on, for he has greater schemes rumbling in his bowels, as will be seen before many hours are over.’”

courtship with Samson Carrasco (The Knight of the Grove identifies Casildea as the object of his love, and says she requited his passion.) “my destiny, or, more properly speaking, my choice led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de Vandalia.”
servant: Samson Carrasco “To be brief, last of all she has commanded me to go through all the provinces of Spain and compel all the knights-errant wandering therein to confess that she surpasses all women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the most valiant and the most deeply enamoured knight on earth.”
admirer: Samson Carrasco “my destiny, or, more properly speaking, my choice led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de Vandalia.”

admirer: Samson Carrasco “it seems to me I should do a serious wrong to the fair Casildea de Vandalia in wasting time while I stopped to raise my visor before compelling you to confess what you are already aware I maintain”
with Samson Carrasco (Samson Carrasco acts as Casildea's knight in the combat.) “it is because it seems to me I should do a serious wrong to the fair Casildea de Vandalia in wasting time while I stopped to raise my visor before compelling you to confess what you are already aware I maintain.”

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