Chapter 23
How King Lisuarte, leaving to hunting as he usually did, saw three armed knights coming down the road, and what happened to him with them.

The house where Cervantes was born
As an adult, Cervantes suffers constant money troubles, but his parents had lived well. [Don Quixote recites a passage from Chapter II of a book about him as we sit in front of Cervantes' Birthplace-Museum: "Happy the age, happy the century, when my deeds of fame sha

"From Best-Seller to Oblivion"
An essay in which I argue that we can't blame it all on Cervantes. The November 2009 issue of the Internet Review of Science Fiction includes my essay "From Best-Seller to Oblivion: A Renaissance Literary Phenomenon." In it, I tell how the novel Amadis o

Chapter 22
About how Amadis left the lady's castle, and what happened to him on the road.[Sohail Castle, Fuengirola, Spain. This polygonal fortress stands on a small hill on the Mediterranean coast. A fort has stood t

Who was Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo?
We know little about the life of the knight who created the only surviving version of Amadís de Gaula.[Detail from "The Descent from the Cross" by Pedro Machuca, which hangs in the Prado Museum.