Leandra
Role: rich damsel · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 51.1
Life events
- Leandra's father entrusts her choice between Anselmo and Eugenio to her.(Part 1, Ch. 51.1)
- With: Anselmo the goatherd Leandra's father
- “he resolved to refer the matter to Leandra”
- Leandra's father postpones choosing between the two suitors because of her youth.(Part 1, Ch. 51.1)
- With: Anselmo the goatherd Leandra's father
- “I only know her father put us both off with the tender age of his daughter and vague words that neither bound him nor dismissed us.”
- Leandra left her father's house and disappeared from the village with Vicente de la Roca.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
- With: Vicente de la Roca
- “Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier”
- Leandra was found in a mountain cave, stripped and robbed of her money and jewels.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
- “They scoured the roads, they searched the woods and all quarters, and at the end of three days they found the flighty Leandra in a mountain cave, stript to her shift, and robbed of all the money and precious jewels she had carried away from home with her.”
- Leandra confessed that Vicente had deceived her under promise of marrying her.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
- With: Vicente de la Roca
- “she confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her father’s house”
- Leandra was taken away and shut up in a convent.(Part 1, Ch. 51.2)
- “The same day that Leandra made her appearance her father removed her from our sight and took her away to shut her up in a convent in a town near this”
Part 1, Ch. 51.1
- admirer: the goatherd “The wealth of the father and the beauty of the daughter led many neighbours as well as strangers to seek her for a wife; but he, as one might well be who had the disposal of so rich a jewel, was perplexed and unable to make up his mind to which of her countless suitors he should entrust her. I was one among the many who felt a desire so natural, and, as her father knew who I was, and I was of the same town, of pure blood, in the bloom of life, and very rich in possessions, I had great hopes of success.”
- admirer: Anselmo “There was another of the same place and qualifications who also sought her, and this made her father’s choice hang in the balance, for he felt that on either of us his daughter would be well bestowed;”
Part 1, Ch. 51.2
- engaged with Vicente de la Roca (Their relationship involved a promise of marriage.) “Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier”
- enemies with Vicente de la Roca (Vicente deceived, robbed, and confined Leandra.) “she confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her father’s house, as he meant to take her to the richest and most delightful city in the whole world, which was Naples; and that she, ill-advised and deluded, had believed him, and robbed her father, and handed over all to him the night she disappeared; and that he had carried her away to a rugged mountain and shut her up in the cave where they had found her”
Part 1, Ch. 51.3
- admirer: the goatherd “Following our example, many more of Leandra’s lovers have come to these rude mountains and adopted our mode of life, and they are so numerous that one would fancy the place had been turned into the pastoral Arcadia, so full is it of shepherds and sheep-folds;”
- admirer: Anselmo “Following our example, many more of Leandra’s lovers have come to these rude mountains and adopted our mode of life, and they are so numerous that one would fancy the place had been turned into the pastoral Arcadia, so full is it of shepherds and sheep-folds;”
Part 1, Ch. 52.1
- patron: Don Quixote (Don Quixote offers to rescue Leandra as a knight-errant.) “I would, this very instant, set out on your behalf, and would rescue Leandra from that convent (where no doubt she is kept against her will), in spite of the abbess and all who might try to prevent me, and would place her in your hands to deal with her according to your will and pleasure, observing, however, the laws of chivalry which lay down that no violence of any kind is to be offered to any damsel.”
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Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.