1973 - Don Quijote - Lladro # 4854 (Limited Series)
 
Theme: History & Literature
Sculptor: Salvador Furio
Size: 11.75" H x 3.9" W x 3.9" L
 
Don Quijote De La Mancha (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Books of All Time 1974 - 1982).
 
Miguel de Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote is generally regarded as the first modern novel and as one of the greatest novels ever written. Influenced somewhat by the epic poem Orlando Furioso by the Italian poet Lodovico Ariosto, Don Quixote is a brilliant satire, not only of the chivalric romances of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, but also of the sentimental and pastoral novels popular in Cervantes' own time. Its protagonists, Don Quixote is the incurable romantic, cherishing the chivalric ideals of a bygone age; Sancho Panza, by contrast, emerges as the quintessence of folk simplicity and worldly astuteness. The tale of their adventures together ranges across a broad panorama of the 16th century Spanish life, brilliantly depicting the countryside with its bare landscape and dusty roads, the wretched inns and crafty innkeepers, the seedy aristocrats and stubborn peasantry. The folk irony, the puns, and the witty repartee which enliven the writing form an integral part of Cervantes' style in Don Quixote.
 
Size: 9" H x 6 1/2" W