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Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
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Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, probably the pseudonym of the otherwise unknown author of Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (1614; “Second Book of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha”), a fraudulent sequel to the first volume of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605). In the 59th chapter of the second volume of Don Quixote (1615), Cervantes mocks the spurious book. Suggestions of the author’s identity include Fray Luis de Aliaga (confessor of Philip III), Lope de Vega, and even Cervantes himself.
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