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is often a satire with the chivalric romances popular during Cervantes’s time. Center-aged Don Quixote of sixteenth-century La Mancha, Spain, spends his life studying these epic tales. They inspire him to revive what he sees as being the missing idea of chivalry, so he picks up a sword and protect and turns into a knight. His aim would be to prot