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Rocinante
Sign in to saveAlso 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
- frameless|220px
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- In popular culture
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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.