Don Lorenzo

Family: Miranda household · Role: student poet and Don Diego's son · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 18.1

Life events

Don Quixote arrives at Don Diego’s house and is welcomed as a distinguished guest.(Part 2, Ch. 18.1 · 📍 Don Diego de Miranda’s house)
- With: Don Quixote Don Diego de Miranda Doña Christina
- “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.”

parent: Don Diego de Miranda “Don Lorenzo (for so Don Diego’s son was called) took the opportunity to say to his father,”
parent: Doña Christina “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;”
mentor: Don Quixote “It is a science,” said Don Quixote, “that comprehends in itself all or most of the sciences in the world”

parent: Don Diego de Miranda (Don Diego is identified as Don Lorenzo's father.) “‘Our guest has broken out on our hands,’ said Don Lorenzo to himself at this point; ‘but, for all that, he is a glorious madman, and I should be a dull blockhead to doubt it.’ Here, being summoned to dinner, they brought their colloquy to a close. Don Diego asked his son what he had been able to make out as to the wits of their guest.”
mentor: Don Quixote (Don Quixote expresses his wish to teach Don Lorenzo the virtues of knight-errantry.) “God knows, I would gladly take Don Lorenzo with me to teach him how to spare the humble, and trample the proud under foot, virtues that are part and parcel of the profession I belong to; but since his tender age does not allow of it, nor his praiseworthy pursuits permit it, I will simply content myself with impressing it upon your worship that you will become famous as a poet if you are guided by the opinion of others rather than by your own”
admirer: Don Quixote “By the highest heavens, noble youth, but you are the best poet on earth, and deserve to be crowned with laurel”

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