Clavileño
Clavileño | |
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Don Quixote character | |
![]() Don Quixote and Sancho "fly" with the fireworks inside Clavileño (Ricardo Balaca, 1870s). | |
Created by | Miguel de Cervantes |
In-universe information | |
Species | Horse |
Gender | Male |
Clavileño the Swift is a fictional wooden horse, notable in both European and Near Eastern folklore, also appearing in chapters 40 and 41 of the second part of the adventures of Don Quixote. It is governed by a pin in its forehead.[1]
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are tricked into using Clavileño, believing they have flown blindfolded and have controlled the horse with a peg in its head. The Dueña Dolorida (Countess Trifaldi) asserts that she and her ladies will be free of their charmed beards if knight and squire fly on the magical horse, sent by the sorcerer Malambruno. In reality the rocking horse is inanimate and goes nowhere, meanwhile explosives are planted near it to simulate a crash landing. Sancho Panza later goes on to say that he lifted his blindfold while "in flight" and saw the sky.[2]
In Spanish, "peg" is clavija and "wood", leño, hence the name.
Clavileño is shown by some units of the Spanish Air and Space Force in its badges.
Further reading
- "A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dalí and the Re-imagining of Clavileño" by S. Alleyn Smythe in Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero, Bucknell University Press (2017)
- "The Practice of Theory" in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics by Anthony J. Cascardi, University of Toronto Press (2012)
- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia (fourth edition), ISBN 0-06-270110-X.
See also
- Rocinante, Don Quixote's real ride, made of flesh and blood (or rather bones and blood).
- The Ebony Horse – Folk tale of the Arabian Nights
References
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imaginary characters,
and animals
- Alonso Quixano / Don Quixote
- Sancho Panza
- Cide Hamete Benengeli
- Clavileño
- Dulcinea del Toboso / Aldonza Lorenzo
- Ginés de Pasamonte
- Ricote
- Rocinante
- The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694 play)
- Double Falsehood (1727 play)
musical
- Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1743)
- Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761 opera)
- Sancho Pança dans son isle (1762 opera)
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (1771 opera)
- Don Quixote (1898 opera)
- Don Quichotte (1910 opera)
- Man of La Mancha (1964 musical, "The Impossible Dream" song)
- Don Quixote (Richard Strauss, 1898)
- Don Quixote (Ludwig Minkus, 1869)
- Don Quixote (1903)
- Incident from Don Quixote (1908)
- Don Quixote (1923)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- Don Quixote (1947)
- Don Quixote (1955–1969, unfinished)
- Don Quixote (1957)
- Dulcinea (1963)
- Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1973)
- Don Quixote (2000)
- Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002)
- Honor de cavalleria (2006)
- Donkey Xote (2007)
- Don Quixote (2010)
- Don Quixote (2015)
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
- He Dreams of Giants (2019)
- I, Don Quixote (1959 teleplay)
- Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (1980 series)
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1989 series)
- El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes (1992 series)
- Don Quixote (2011 series)
- La Leyenda de la Mancha (1998, "Molinos de viento" song)
- Don Quixote (1955 sketch)
- Don Quixote (1976 sculpture)
- Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
- Amadís de Gaula
- List of works influenced by Don Quixote
- Quixotism
- The History of Cardenio
- "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)
- "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1939 short story)
- Monsignor Quixote (1982 novel)
- Super Don Quix-ote (1984 video game)
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