Frederick de Armas argues that a fanciful description of this character with two maids is an ekphrasis of Botticelli's Primavera.
Frederick de Armas argues that a fanciful description of this character with two maids is an ekphrasis of Botticelli's Primavera. A poet commissioned to write an acrostic poem about this character protests that seventeen letters cannot be divided regularly between stanzas. In a subsequently-reported dream sequence, a maid for this character o fers a petticoat as collateral for a six-coin loan in a cave housing a dried-up salted heart cut from a castrated corpse. A man dressed as Merlin claims that this character can be saved if another character is whipped on the buttocks thirty-three hundred times in a prank orchestrated by the Duke and Duchess. A ter addressing a request to this character, a man bloodies the mouth of a mule-rider armored with a pillow. Despite never appearing in person, this character is repeatedly invoked by the novel's protagonist before  ghting characters like Sanson Carrasco. For 10 points, name this peasant girl, actually named Aldonza Lorenzo, who serves as the title character's muse in Don Quixote.
Frederick de Armas argues that a fanciful description of this character with two maids is an ekphrasis of Botticelli's Primavera.
Dulcinea del Toboso [or Aldonza Lorenzo before it is read; or Aldonza Lorenzo before it is read]