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The priest’s observation that Anselmo’s story cannot be true because a husband would never be that stupid is ironic. Compared with the unlikely reunion of the four lovers in Don Quixote, the stupidity Anselmo displays in the story is plausible. A summary of The First Part, Chapters 32–37 in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote.
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Anselmo was deep in love with a high-born and beautiful maiden of the same city, the daughter of parents so estimable, and so estimable herself, that he resolved, with the approval of his friend Lothario, without whom he did nothing, to ask her of them in marriage, and did so, Lothario being the bearer of the demand, and conducting the negotiation so much to the satisfaction of his friend that ...
Don Quixote: Part 1, Chapter 33. The story describes two young men named Anselmo and Lotario, who once lived in the city of Florence. Anselmo has a penchant for chasing women, but Lotario is more interested in hunting and sport. One day, Anselmo marries a beautiful girl named Camila.
Anselmo then decides to have him offer presents, which tends to weaken most women. However, Anselmo is becoming suspicious--and he locks himself in another room. He watches as Lothario and Camilla say nothing to each other. When he asks Lothario later what Camilla did, he says she dismissed him in anger. Anselmo reveals that he knows he is lying.
Anselmo was deep in love with a high-born and beautiful maiden of the same city, the daughter of parents so estimable, and so estimable herself, that he resolved, with the approval of his friend Lothario, without whom he did nothing, to ask her of them in marriage, and did so, Lothario being the bearer of the demand, and conducting the negotiation so much to the satisfaction of his friend that ...
The next day as the three were at table Anselmo asked Lothario to recite something of what he had composed for his mistress Chloris; for as Camilla did not know her, he might safely say what he liked. "Even did she know her," returned Lothario, "I would hide nothing, for when a lover praises his lady's beauty, and charges her with cruelty, he ...
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Anselmo being at last deeply enamoured of a principal and beautiful young lady of the same city, called Camilla, being so worthily descended, and she herself of such merit therewithal, as he resolved (by the consent of his friend Lothario, without whom he did nothing) to demand her of her parents for wife; and did put his purpose in execution; and Lothario himself was the messenger, and ...
