With Donald Macleod. Possibly the most famous work of literature to emerge from Spain is The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. The episodes of the Knight of the Doleful Countenance - tilting at windmills, attacking a procession of monks and professing his love for the unattainable Dulcinea - have acquired almost mythic status and inspired music from Purcell to Ravel.