On nominalism's entry into Spain in the early sixteenth century through the efforts of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, see Bataillon 10-66. On the importance of nominalism in relation to the theological controversies that developed in Spain in the middle of the sixteenth century, see Creel 25-26.

Also see Adams 57.

This principle is the basis of Greimas's Narrative Semiotics and Cognitive Discourses, which analyzes the «resemblances between the more or less abstract organization of discourse that claims to be scientific and the figurative forms of the narrative discourses of literature and myth» (p. 57).

See note 15. Also, in regard to Freud, in his letter to Albert Einstein published under the title «Why War?» Freud writes, «It may perhaps seem to you as though our theories are a kind of mythology and, in the present case, not even an agreeable one. But does not every science come in the end to a kind of mythology like this? Cannot the same be said today of your own Physics?» (Freud 22, 211).

Northrop Frye discusses the importance of a conceptual framework in science and of symposium and dialogue in Renaissance art in Anatomy 15 and 59.

Quoted by Hayward 390.

To facilitate recognition I have used the spelling Don Quijote for the person and Don Quixote for the work.

The reason for this delay had undoubtedly to do with the Thirty Years War and still is the cause of errors in bibliographical citation even in the last two decades. See Harriet C. Frazier A Babble of Ancestral Voices (The Hague: Mouton, 1974) p. 109.

His real name was Joachim Caesar.

Christian F. Melz in his An evaluation of the earliest German translation of «Don Quixote» «Juncker Harnisch aus Fleckenland» has done an excellent analysis of both texts.