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Love Makes All Things Equal

May 22, 2014 by Alison Oatman Leave a Comment

“So that you may see, Sancho, the virtue contained in knight errantry, and how those who practice any portion of it always tend to be honored and esteemed in the world, I want you to sit here at my side and in the company of these good people, and be the same as I, who am your natural lord and master; eat from my plate and drink where I drink, for one may say of knight errantry what is said of love: it makes all things equal.”

–Don Quixote, First Part, Chapter XI

Here Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho sit among a group of goatherds.

Don Quixote is Christ-like in this scene, as tinged with a sense of the absurd as his speeches usually are.

He is a crusader of love who sometimes spreads a truly wacky gospel.

At his very core he is a caballero de fina estampa–a gentleman of fine appearance.

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Alison Oatman attended Wellesley College and N.Y.U., where she majored in Italian Language and Literature. She obtained her M.A. in Medieval Studies at Columbia University.

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