Miguel de Cervantes (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In the gallery of universal and eternal symbols, two figures were thrust into fame by the pen of the great writer of the Golden Age of Spain, Miguel de Cervantes (sur-VAHN-teez). These two figures, one sad and gaunt, the other chubby and jovial, are the gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and his squire, Sancho Panza. “Thin, shriveled, fanciful, and full of various thoughts,” the first, and “a man of a good nature but with very little salt in the crown of his head,” the second—both constitute an inseparable duality typifying all aspects of humanity through the ages.
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