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| Dulcinea - M. A. Cruz (2010) Dulcinea is a fictional character from Miguel Cervantes' book Don Quixote from 1605. Quixote describes her as a figure of extraordinary beauty but she is really just a simple peasant. In 16th century Spanish, Dulcinea meant something akin to an overly elegant "sweetness". A reference to someone as your "Dulcinea" implies hopeless devotion and love for one who does not return the same emotion. The following is Don Quixote’s hyperbolic description from volume I, chapter XIII - "… her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare." |
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