CHAPTER 1
Characters
Ali Alouk Fartach (The Scabby Renegade)
Ringworm: Ali Alouk Fartach's surname means ringworm in Turkish. This is why he is called the Scabby Renegade.
Ali Alouk Was a Galley Slave: Ali Alouk, aka the "Scabby Renegade," rows as a galley slave for the "Grand Turk [Sultan Selim] for fourteen years." At the age of thirty four, however, when he is "slapped by a Turk while at oar," he grows enraged, abandons his faith, and kills his galley master.
Ali Alouk is The King of Algiers Then Admiral of The Ottoman Fleet: Ali Alouk Fartach is "such an able man that, without resorting to the vile methods used by most of the Grand Turk's favourites to rise, [he] becomes the King of Algiers and then the Admiral of the Fleet, which is the third most important position in the empire." Since he defeats the Maltese flagship during the battle of Lepanto, "the Grand Turk [Sultan] Selim promote[d] [him] to admiral [of his fleet] for having done his duty in the battle and [for] having carried off, as proof of his bravery, the standard of the Knights of Malta."
Hometown: Ali Alouk's hometown is Calabria.
Kind to Prisoners: According to Cervantes, Ali Alouk Fartach is "an upright man and very kind to his captives."
His Men: After his death, Ali Alouk Fartach divides in his will his three thousand men. Some of Fartach's men go to his renegades while others go to the Grand Turk, Sultan Selim, "who counts as a son and heir anyone who dies, and shares his wealth with his other sons."
How He Captures the Captive Capitan (Cervantes): During the battle of Lepanto, Ali Alouk, who is "a bold and successful privateer, rams and overpowers the Maltese flagship and only three knights of Malta [are] left alive on it." Giovanni Andrea Doria's flagship, upon which the Captive Captain serves with his company of sailors, "goes to rescue" the flagship. At this time, the captive captain, ever eager to do his duty, "leaps aboard the enemy galley, which then sheers off from [his] galley." This severance "prevents [his] soldiers from following [him]." Left alone among so many enemies, the Captive Captain "can't resist for long." Thus, he is soon "overpowered and covered with wounds." Since Ali Alouk escapes with his entire squadron, the Captive Capitan ends up as a captive in his power. During his time as a galley slave, the captive captain rows for Ali Alouk, fighting in a series of naval battles off the Barbary Coast.
Refuge: During the second year of the captive captain's captivity, Ali Alouk takes "refuge on Modon, an island near Navarino, [where he] disembarks his troops, fortifies the harbor entrance and waits there until Don John [of Austria goes] away." This, in brief, is how Ali Alouk avoids having his entire Turkish fleet "caught in harbor."
Alonso Lopez (BA)
Education: Though Alonso Lopez first says he is a master of the arts, later, he points out that he is only a bachelor of the arts.
Hometown: Alonso Lopez is a native of Alcobendas.
Origin: Alonso Lopez comes from the city of Baeza with eleven other priests.
Don Quixote and Alonso Lopez's Encounter: First, Don Quixote grabs Alonso Lopez's mule's reign, to inquire why a group of twelve penitents, dressed in mourning, carry a funeral bier. Since the mule is a jittery creature, he rears-up, bucks Alonso Lopez off his back, then falls on top of him, crushing his tibia, in the process. This accident prompts Alonso Lopez to explain that he is a master of the arts, a native of Alcobendas, come from the city of Baeza, with eleven other priests, to transport a litter containing the corpse of a gentleman who died in Baeza. Ultimately, Alonso Lopez is destined for Segovia (the dead man's home town) where he hopes to bury his bones in a tomb. On his way to Segovia, Don Quixote asks Alonso Lopez who killed the corpse that he transports. Alonso Lopez replies that God did, with a pestilential fever. Our knight responds by saying that God has "relieved him of the task he would have had of avenging his death, if anyone else had killed him." Upset that Don Quixote broke his leg, Alonso Lopez tells him that he is "excommunicated from the church for laying violent hands on what is sacred, [since his leg] "will never be right again in all the days of his life." In reply, Don Quixote says that he "did not think that he was attacking priests or anything to do with the Church, which he respects and adores as a good catholic and faithful Christian, but ghosts and phantoms from the other world." After telling Don Quixote that he is banished because of what he did, not because of the malice with which he did it, Alonso Lopez rides away.
Altisidora (The Girl Infatuated With Don Quixote)
Altisidora Serenades Don Quixote From A Garden Courtyard: One night, when Don Quixote tries to sleep in the Duke and Duchess's country house, he finds his room so hot that he opens a window to create a refreshing breeze. When Don Quixote opens his window, however, he is startled to hear people talking in the estate's courtyard. One of the voices Don Quixote hears belongs to a beautiful 14 year old maiden named Altisidora who confides, to her best friend Emerencia, that she loves Don Quixote. Since Altisidora reveals to Emerencia that "ever since [she] entered the castle and her eyes alighted on Don Quixote she feels ready to weep for him," Emerencia encourages Altisidora to sing a love song to "the lord of her heart, [and] the rouser of her soul." At first, Altisidora does not want to sing to Don Quixote because: A) she does not want to "reveal the secrets of her heart" through song; B) she does not want to be "considered a fickle and flighty maid by those who do not know about the mighty force of love within her;" and C) she does not want to wake the Duchess who is a light sleeper. Despite her reticence, however, Altisidora eventually serenades Don Quixote.
Thus, in the next moment, Don Quixote hears the gentle tones of a harp being tuned, which instantly calls to his mind chivalric adventures "about windows and grilles and gardens and serenades and sweet nothings and fainting fits." Due to his excessive excitement for chivalry, Don Quixote immediately assumes that one of the Duchess's maidservants is in love with him and that her modesty forces her to keep her passion a secret. To let Altisidora know that he is there, Don Quixote pretends to sneeze so that she can commence her ballad with comfort. After Altisidora runs her fingers over her harp strings to warm them up, and after she sings a song about how Don Quixote is the bravest and the best of knights that La Mancha ever bore, Altisidora says that though she cannot contend with Dulcinea's...
