Other Figures — Minor Figures
76 figures from Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation) who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Alonzo Lopez
bachelor · first appears Part 1, Ch. 19.2
- Part 1, Ch. 19.2 · enemies with Don Quixote “I could not avoid doing my duty in attacking you, and I should have attacked you even had I known positively that you were the very devils of hell, for such I certainly believed and took you to be.”
- Part 1, Ch. 19.2 · patron: Sancho Panza “Sancho made a bag of his coat, and, getting together as much as he could, and as the bag would hold, he loaded his beast, and then hastened to obey his master’s call, and helped him to remove the bachelor from under the mule; then putting him on her back he gave him the torch”
Cachidiablo
Academician of Argamasilla · first appears Part 1, Ch. 52.4
- Part 1, Ch. 52.4 · with Don Quixote “CACHIDIABLO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTE”
Doña Christina
Don Diego's wife · first appears Part 2, Ch. 18.1
- Part 2, Ch. 18.1 · child: Don Lorenzo “The student poet, Don Diego’s son, who had come out with his mother to receive him, heard this exclamation, and both mother and son were filled with amazement at the extraordinary figure he presented;”
- Part 2, Ch. 18.1 · protégé: Don Quixote “for on the arrival of so distinguished a guest, Doña Christina was anxious to show that she knew how and was able to give a becoming reception to those who came to her house.”
Friston
sage magician · first appears Part 1, Ch. 7.1
- Part 1, Ch. 8.1 · enemies with Don Quixote “‘Hush, friend Sancho,’ replied Don Quixote, ‘the fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover I think, and it is the truth, that that same sage Friston who carried off my study and books, has turned these giants into mills in order to rob me of the glory of vanquishing them, such is the enmity he bears me; but in the end his wicked arts will avail but little against my good sword.’”
Guadiana
squire to Durandarte · first appears Part 2, Ch. 23.2
- Part 2, Ch. 23.2 · employer: Durandarte “Guadiana your squire, likewise bewailing your fate, was changed into a river of his own name,”
- Part 2, Ch. 23.2 · patron: Don Quixote “that Don Quixote of La Mancha I mean, who has again, and to better purpose than in past times, revived in these days knight-errantry, long since forgotten, and by whose intervention and aid it may be we shall be disenchanted;”