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Miguel de Cervantes, engraving by E. Mackenzie after Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma; from The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1863).
At the end of Part 2 of the novel, Don Quixote is defeated in battle by the Knight of the White Moon, who forces him to return home to his village in La Mancha. Upon his arrival, Don Quixote falls ill, renounces chivalry and the foolish fiction that had fueled his delusions, and subsequently dies.123