Don Quixote was written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and was published in 1605, at the last century of the Renaissance (1400-1600). Don Quixote is a novel about a wealthy man named Alonso Quixano,<em> who one day decides to go find adventures like the ones he read in his books, he decides he is now a knife in shining armor.</em> <u>He changes his name to Don Quixote and begins to imagine that objects of the daily life are dragons and monsters (imaginary enemies) </u>along with his peasant friend Sancho Panza.