Note 3 — DON QUIXOTE’S NIECE[3]
J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch translation
It will be remembered that Don Quixote, otherwise known as Alonso Quixano, when he turned knight-errant, resolved that it was proper for him to have some lady to whom he might send the trophies of his valour. Accordingly he chose for his mistress one Aldonza Lorenzo, “a good, likely country lass,” for whom he had long cherished an unavowed passion. He bestowed upon her the name of Dulcinea, with the addition of Del Toboso from the place where she was born.
According to Unamuno’s exegesis, Dulcinea stands “for glory, for life, for survival.”