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Rocinante
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Also known as Rosinante

thumb|Don Quixote (Kennedy Center sculpture)|Don Quixote, a 1976 statue by Aurelio Teno exhibited in Washington, D.C., portrays Rocinante and Don Quixote as emerging from a rock ready for battle

Key facts

Character.name
Rocinante (Rozinante)
Character.series
Don Quixote
Character.image
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Character.caption
Rocinante. Detail of the Cervantes monument in Madrid (L. Coullaut, 1930)
Character.creator
Miguel de Cervantes
Character.species
Horse
Character.gender
Male

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thumb|Don Quixote (Kennedy Center sculpture)|Don Quixote, a 1976 statue by Aurelio Teno exhibited in Washington, D.C., portrays Rocinante and Don Quixote as emerging from a rock ready for battle

Rocinante (Rozinante) () is Don Quixote's horse in the 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways, Rozinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double; like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rocinante” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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