Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
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' Don Quixote was published under the pseudonym
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 Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. The identity of Fernández de Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. One theory holds that Avellaneda's work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega.

Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda's work in low regard, and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have completed his own continuation were it not for the stimulus Avellaneda provided. Throughout Part 2 of Cervantes' book Don Quixote meets characters who know of him from their reading of his Part 1, but in Chapter 59 Don Quixote first learns of Avellaneda's Part 2, and is outraged since it portrays him as being no longer in love with Dulcinea
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"Dulcinea del Toboso" is a fictional character who is referred to in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. Seeking the traditions of the knights-errant of old, Don Quixote finds a true love whom he calls Dulcinea. She is a simple peasant in his home town, but Quixote imagines her to be the most...

 del Toboso. As a result of this Don Quixote decides not to go to Saragossa to take part in the jousts, as he had planned, because such an incident features in that book. From then on Avellaneda's work is ridiculed at frequent intervals; Don Quixote even meets one of its characters, Don Alvaro Tarfe, and gets him to swear an affidavit that he has never met the true Don Quixote before (Pt 2 Ch 72).

But there is evidence that some of Cervantes' condemnations are tongue-in-cheek references to errors or jokes in Part 1. In Part 2, Chapter 59 of Cervantes' version, Don Quixote disregards Avellaneda's Part 2 because in it Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote, and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs,...

's wife is called "Mari Gutierrez" instead of "Teresa Panza". However, in the early chapters of Part 1 Sancho's wife is called by many names (some within just two paragraphs) including "Juana Panza", "Mari Gutierrez", "Juana Gutierrez", "Teresa Cascajo", etc. "Teresa Panza" is settled on only after she becomes a substantial character, just as "Sancho's donkey" is named "El Rucio" (or, as he is known in English, "Dapple") only after the animal becomes central to various subplots (Pt 1, Ch 25). It is difficult to decide whether these are true mistakes, as malapropisms, aliases and puns are a running joke throughout the books. Cide Berengeli is miscalled Berengena (eggplant), Teresa called Teresona Panza (approximately, "Fat Belly"), and so on.

Following his defeat by Sanson Carrasco, disguised as the Knight of the White Moon, [El Caballero de la Blanca Luna] (Pt 2, Ch 64), Don Quixote proposes that he, Sancho, and various other characters should become shepherds (Pt 2, Ch 67), and since all shepherds should have pastoral names, he suggests that the barber Nicolas should become Miculoso, bachelor Carrasco Carrascon, and the priest Curiambrote; Sancho then suggests that his wife becomes Teresona Panza since it will "suit her fatness well".

External links

For an introduction, a good article in English is Jim Iffland's “Do We Really Need to Read Avellaneda?http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics01/iffland.pdf, published in the journal of the Cervantes Society of America http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csapage.htm.
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