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Part 1: Chapter 7. Who is Cid Hamete Benengeli?

 

savannah l #195687
Aug 15, 2011 2:09 PM

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Part 1: Chapter 7. Who is Cid Hamete Benengeli?

Please help me its questions that i dont understand with the book and need help finding them out.

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Aslan
Aug 15, 2011 2:44 PM

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Cide Hamete Benengeli is the fictional Moorish author created by Cervantes and listed as the chronicler of the adventures of Don Quixote. Cide is a title like sir, which means My Lord, Hamete is the Spanish version of the arabic name Hamed, which means he who praises, and Benengeli is a comical invention of Cervantes that suggests aubergine-eater via the Spanish berenjena or aubergine, popularly considered to be the favorite food of the people of Toledo at the time of the novel. Please check out the source link for this excerpt.

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Don_Quixote_characters

 

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