Editing Don Quixote (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Billete de 1 peseta del Banco de España, 1951 (Anverso).jpg|thumb|Don Quixote on a 1 [[Spanish peseta|Peseta]] banknote from 1951]]
[[File:Don quixote tile.jpg|thumb|Tiles depicting scenes from Don Quixote on a bench in [[Chapultepec]]]]
[[File:Madrid street art don quijote.jpg|thumb|Madrid street art near Plaza España involving Don Quixote]]
{{see also|List of works influenced by Don Quixote}}

===Influence on modern Spanish===
In 2002 the [[Norwegian Nobel Institute]] conducted a study among writers from 55 countries, the [[majority]] voted ''Don Quixote'' "the greatest work of fiction ever written".<ref>{{cite book | editor1= Aaron M. Kahn |title=Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment |publisher= Oxford University Press |year=2021 |page=87 |isbn=9780198742913 }}</ref>

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase {{lang|es|de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme}} ("whose name I do not wish to recall"):<ref>{{Cite web |last=FARRANT |first=LILY |date=2022-04-22 |title=22 April 1616: Death of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes |url=https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/death-spanish-writer-20220422093800-ntvo.html |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Sur in English |language=en}}</ref> {{lang|es|En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=En un lugar de la Mancha |url=https://www.gavilan.edu/academic/spanish/gaspar/html/11_03.html |access-date=September 30, 2024 |website=gavilan.edu}}</ref> ("In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.")<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, by Miguel de Cervantes |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5921/5921-h/5921-h.htm#ch1 |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>

===Influence on the English language===
''Don Quixote'' alongside its many translations, has also provided a number of idioms and expressions to the English language. Examples with their own articles include the phrase "[[the pot calling the kettle black]]" and the adjective "[[Quixotism|quixotic]]".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-15 |title=Definition of QUIXOTIC |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quixotic |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular English Idioms and Their Curious Origins |url=https://www.invaluable.com/blog/popular-english-idioms/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Invaluable.com}}</ref>

==== Tilting at windmills ====
{{redirect|Tilting at windmills||tilting at windmills (disambiguation)}}
Tilting at windmills is an English [[idiom]] that means "attacking imaginary enemies". The expression is derived from ''Don Quixote'', and the word "tilt" in this context refers to [[jousting]]. This phrase is sometimes also expressed as "charging at windmills" or "fighting the windmills".<ref name="fight_windmills">{{cite web| title = Definition of fight windmills | url = https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fight-windmills| access-date = April 17, 2023}}</ref>

The phrase is sometimes used to describe either confrontations where adversaries are incorrectly perceived, or courses of action that are based on misinterpreted or misapplied heroic, romantic, or idealistic justifications.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Milton |first=Joyce |title=Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote |publisher=Barron's Educational Series, Inc. |year=1985 |isbn=0-8120-3512-7 |series=Barron's Book Notes |location=New York, USA |pages=37}}</ref> It may also connote an inopportune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined.<ref name="Ammer">{{cite book |url=http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/tilt-at-windmills |chapter=What does "tilt at windmills" mean? |title=The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms |first1=Christine |last1=Ammer |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |date=2003 |location=Boston, MA |access-date=31 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415022333/http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/tilt-at-windmills |archive-date=15 April 2013 |isbn=<!--0618249532-->978-0618249534}}</ref>

==== In science ====

[[Dulcibella]], a deep-sea amphipod species, was named after the character Dulcinea in the novel, following the tradition of naming amphipods after literary figures.