Gustave Doré's Don Quixote

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Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving

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Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent

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And seems a moving land and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea

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And now on earth the seventh Evening arose in Eden

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And now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign worlds

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Now Night Her Course Began

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The Creation of Fish and Birds

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Satan’s Flight Through Chaos

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Satan in Council

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Adam and Eve

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Abdiel and Satan

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Death of Don Quixote.

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Sancho overjoyed to see his native village again.

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In Altisadora’s narrative, devils play court tennis using books as balls / Don Quixote makes a formal declaration that he was not the hero of the false Second Part of Don Quixote by Avellaneda of Tordesillas.

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Sancho whips himself to break the spell cast on Dulcinea.

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The Don decides to become a shepherd during the year in which he is forbidden to bear arms / Sancho and the Don overwhelmed by the pigs.

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The two adventurers turn homeward dejectedly.