Don Quixote: personaggi, cronologia e luoghi

A gentleman in La Mancha loses his judgment through reading and decides to become a knight-errant.

Don Quixote asks an innkeeper to make him a knight and injures two muleteers while guarding his arms.

Don Quixote mistakes windmills for giants and ignores Sancho Panza’s warnings.

Galician muleteers beat Don Quixote and Sancho after Rocinante approaches their mares and Don Quixote attacks.

Don Quixote attacks the guards of men condemned to the galleys, allowing the prisoners to escape.

Don Quixote chooses a mountain retreat for penance and sends Sancho to Dulcinea with a letter.

Dorotea pretends to be a dispossessed princess to draw Don Quixote out of the mountains.

Don Fernando arrives at the inn with Luscinda, whose reunion with Cardenio follows recognition and confrontation.

Don Quixote travels in a cage, believing himself enchanted, while Sancho challenges the priest’s deception.

Don Quixote mistakes a religious image for a captive woman and suffers a blow that sends him home.

Sansón Carrasco tells Don Quixote and Sancho that their adventures appear in a widely read history.

Sancho presents a passing peasant woman as Dulcinea and persuades Don Quixote that enchantment disguises her beauty.

Don Quixote defeats a challenging knight and discovers a face identical to Sansón Carrasco’s beneath the helmet.

Basilio pretends to stab himself at Quiteria’s wedding and secures her hand as an apparent dying wish.

Don Quixote mistakes a puppet pursuit for a real attack and destroys Master Pedro’s stage.

A duchess recognizes Don Quixote and Sancho from their printed story and welcomes them to her lands.

Don Quixote and Sancho mistake artificial wind and heat for flight before firecrackers throw them from a wooden horse.

Sancho takes office in Barataria and surprises the townspeople with his practical judgments in three disputes.

During a staged invasion, Sancho falls between tightly bound shields and suffers trampling before the pranksters announce victory.

Don Quixote and Sancho reach Barcelona, where the sea, ships, music, and gunfire astonish them.

Sansón Carrasco reveals that he defeats Don Quixote to make him return home and recover his reason.

Don Quixote returns to his village and proposes spending his required year at home as a shepherd.

Don Quixote falls ill, declares his sanity restored, rejects books of chivalry, and makes his will as Alonso Quijano the Good.