# Don Quixote — Character guide

> Key figures in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

- [Don Quixote](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/don_quixote.md): A gentleman who loses his mind reading chivalric romances and becomes a knight-errant.
- [Sancho Panza](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/sancho_panza.md): A simple farmer who becomes Don Quixote's squire, seeking adventure and a governorship.
- [Dulcinea del Toboso](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/dulcinea_del_toboso.md): A peasant woman idealized by Don Quixote as his lady love.
- [Samson Carrasco](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/samson_carrasco.md): A mischievous student who disguises himself as a knight to bring Don Quixote home.
- [Miguel de Cervantes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/cervantes.md): The author who appears as a narrator and character within the story.
- [Cide Hamete Benengeli](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/cide_hamete_benengeli.md): The fictional Arab historian credited as the true author of the manuscript.
- [Anselmo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/anselmo.md): A Florentine gentleman who tests his wife's fidelity with disastrous results.
- [Camilla](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/camilla.md): Anselmo's virtuous wife who is tested by her husband's friend Lothario.
- [Lothario](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/lothario.md): Anselmo's friend who is asked to test Camilla's fidelity.
- [Don Fernando](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/fernando.md): A wealthy young nobleman who seduces and abandons Dorothea.
- [Dorothea](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/dorothea.md): A beautiful woman deceived by Don Fernando who later helps resolve the plot.
- [Cardenio](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/cardenio.md): A lovesick young man driven mad by betrayal and lost love.
- [Luscinda](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/luscinda.md): Cardenio's beloved who is forced into a marriage with Don Fernando.
- [Zoraida](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/zoraida.md): A beautiful Moorish woman who helps a Spanish captive escape.
- [Rocinante](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/rocinante.md): Don Quixote's thin, aging horse, treated as a noble steed.
- [Dapple](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/dapple.md): Sancho Panza's loyal donkey, his companion on all adventures.
- [Teresa Panza](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/teresa_panza.md): Sancho's practical and sharp-tongued wife.
- [Sanchica](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/sanchica.md): Sancho and Teresa's daughter, who hopes for a better life.
- [Altisidora](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/altisidora.md): A playful duchess's maid who pretends to be in love with Don Quixote.
- [The Duke](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_duke.md): A wealthy nobleman who, with his wife, plays elaborate pranks on Don Quixote.
- [The Duchess](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_duchess.md): The Duke's clever wife who orchestrates many of the pranks on Don Quixote.
- [Marcela](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/marcela.md): A beautiful shepherdess who rejects all suitors and defends her freedom.
- [Chrysostom](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/chrysostom.md): A shepherd who dies of unrequited love for Marcela.
- [Ginés de Pasamonte](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/gin%C3%A9s_de_pasamonte.md): A cunning criminal freed by Don Quixote who later reappears as a puppeteer.
- [Andrés](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/andres.md): A young boy beaten by his master whom Don Quixote tries to help.
- [The Priest](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_priest.md): Don Quixote's friend who tries to cure his madness and bring him home.
- [Master Nicholas](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/master_nicholas.md): The barber of the village and friend of Don Quixote.
- [The Housekeeper](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_housekeeper.md): Don Quixote's housekeeper who worries about his madness.
- [The Niece](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_niece.md): Don Quixote's niece who cares for him and fears for his sanity.
- [Ricote](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/ricote.md): A wealthy Morisco and former neighbor of Sancho, forced into exile.
- [Basilio](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/basilio.md): A poor young man who uses a trick to win his beloved Quiteria.
- [Quiteria](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/quiteria.md): A beautiful woman caught between her love for Basilio and a rich suitor.
- [Camacho](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/camacho.md): A wealthy man whose wedding to Quiteria is interrupted by Basilio.
- [Don Diego de Miranda](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/don_diego_de_miranda.md): A gentleman who hosts Don Quixote and is known as the Knight of the Green Coat.
- [Don Lorenzo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/don_lorenzo.md): The son of Don Diego de Miranda, a poet and scholar.
- [Roque Guinart](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/roque_guinart.md): A famous Catalan bandit who encounters Don Quixote.
- [Claudia Jeronima](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/claudia_jeronima.md): A young woman disguised as a man who seeks Roque Guinart's help.
- [Don Antonio Moreno](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/don_antonio_moreno.md): A wealthy gentleman in Barcelona who hosts Don Quixote.
- [Ana Félix](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/ana_felix.md): A beautiful Morisco woman disguised as a man, daughter of Ricote.
- [Don Gaspar Gregorio](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/don_gaspar_gregorio.md): A young Christian nobleman in love with Ana Félix.
- [The Countess Trifaldi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_countess_trifaldi.md): A duenna who tells a fantastic tale of enchantment to Don Quixote.
- [Trifaldin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/trifaldin.md): The squire of the Countess Trifaldi, with a famously long beard.
- [Clavileño](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/clavileno.md): A magical wooden horse that Don Quixote and Sancho ride.
- [Malambruno](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/malambruno.md): The enchanter who supposedly controls the fate of the Countess Trifaldi.
- [Merlin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/merlin.md): The legendary enchanter who appears in a prophecy to Dulcinea.
- [Montesinos](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/montesinos.md): A legendary figure from chivalric romance who appears in Don Quixote's dream.
- [Durandarte](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/durandarte.md): A knight from romance whose enchanted heart is shown to Don Quixote.
- [Belerma](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/belerma.md): The lady love of Durandarte, seen in Don Quixote's cave vision.
- [The Biscayan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_biscayan.md): A Basque gentleman who fights Don Quixote over a perceived insult.
- [Maritornes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/maritornes.md): A kind-hearted Asturian servant at an inn who helps Don Quixote.
- [The Innkeeper](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_innkeeper.md): The owner of the inn who dubs Don Quixote a knight.
- [The Innkeeper's Daughter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_innkeepers_daughter.md): The innkeeper's daughter who helps with Don Quixote's vigil.
- [The Goat Herd](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_goat_herd.md): A goatherd who tells the story of Marcela and Chrysostom.
- [The Captive](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_captive.md): A Spanish soldier who tells the story of his captivity and love for Zoraida.
- [The Judge](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/don_quixote_se/characters/the_judge.md): A Spanish judge who is revealed to be the captive's brother.

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