Malambruno

Also known as: giant Malambruno · Role: enchanter · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 39

At Kandy in Part 2, Ch. 39, the giant Malambruno, a cruel enchanter and cousin of Queen Doña Maguncia, appeared over her grave on a wooden horse. To avenge her death, he enchanted Don Clavijo and Princess Antonomasia, changing them into a horrible crocodile and a brass ape, and punished the duennas by making their faces bearded. He also threatened Countess Trifaldi with a huge scimitar, making them enemies.

In Part 2, Chs. 40–41, Malambruno promised to send the rescuing knight a magical wooden horse, Clavileño. Don Quixote vowed to behead him, while Sancho Panza cursed him as an enchanter and giant; nevertheless, Clavileño arrived and carried them toward Malambruno, whom Countess Trifaldi described as true to his promises. In Part 2, Ch. 44, Malambruno abandoned his magical instruments and burned Clavileño, “the chief one.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Malambruno enchanted Don Clavijo and Princess Antonomasia, transforming them into a crocodile and a brass ape.(Part 2, Ch. 39 · 📍 Kandy)
  • With: Don Clavijo Princess Antonomasia
  • “he, to revenge the death of his cousin, punish the audacity of Don Clavijo, and in wrath at the contumacy of Antonomasia, left them both enchanted by his art on the grave itself; she being changed into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile of some unknown metal;”
• Malambruno punished the duennas by transforming their faces into bearded countenances.(Part 2, Ch. 39 · 📍 Kandy)
  • With: Trifaldin of the White Beard
  • “the very instant he ceased speaking we all felt the pores of our faces opening, and pricking us, as if with the points of needles.”
• 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: the countess Trifaldi
  • “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;”
• Don Quixote vows to behead Malambruno with his sword.(Part 2, Ch. 40.2)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “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;”
• Malambruno burns Clavileño after abandoning his magical instruments.(Part 2, Ch. 44.2)
  • “he resolved to make away with all the instruments of his craft; and so burned Clavileño as the chief one”