person
Sancho Panza
The faithful squire of Don Quixote in Cervantes's novel (1605–1615), a comically earthbound counterpart to his idealistic master; Madách's narrator addresses his servant Daniel as 'Sancho Pansám' (my Sancho Panza) to signal the quixotic structure of the whole tale.
Reading notes
- Tales (Five Stories) §3 Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza is Don Quixote's faithful but earthbound squire in Cervantes's novel. The narrator addresses his servant Daniel as his 'Sancho Panza' — a self-deprecating admission that his own adventures have the shape of a quixotic farce.