Amor, che spesso alla virtude è sprone, / Il ciglio, e il volto dell'Eroe compone. / All'estasi di gioja apre il suo cuore, / E alla preghiera lo costringe amore. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Amor, che spesso alla virtude è sprone, / Il ciglio, e il volto dell'Eroe compone. / All'estasi di gioja apre il suo cuore, / E alla preghiera lo costringe amore.
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Spain; Europe; Sierra Morena
Description: In Sierra Morena, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive at the foot of a high mountain, standing alone among the many others that surround it. Don Quixote chooses this place for his penance. He inscribes verses for Dulcinea into the tree trunks, and prays with his makeshift rosary, fashioned by tying eleven knots in a strip of cloth torn from his shirt. He has removed his armour, for he must be as naked as the day he was born if he is to follow Roland. Signed by Bartolomeo Pinelli (engraver and illustrator) and dated Rome, 1833. Plate 28. Part 1, ch. 26.
Image Creator: Pinelli, Bartolomeo (Illustrator); Pinelli, Bartolomeo (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:20644
Language: ita
Source Name: Le azioni piu celebrate del famoso cavaliere errante Don Chisciotte della Mancia inventate ed incise da Bartilomeo Pinelli Romano
Parent Collection: 1834 Gentilucci
Image: mta_20644_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Don Quixote
Subject: Don Quixote; Rosary