What princess name does Dorotea use in her disguise?

What princess name does Dorotea use in her disguise? Dorotea uses the name Princess Micomicona.

Dorotea adopts the identity of Princess Micomicona as part of a scheme to bring Don Quixote out of the Sierra Morena and back toward his village. The priest and the barber recruit her because she can play a distressed damsel from a chivalric romance, a role Don Quixote is eager to believe.

In the invented story, Princess Micomicona’s kingdom has been threatened by a giant. She asks Don Quixote to become her champion and defeat the monster. Don Quixote accepts the mission, believing that the adventure will restore his reputation as a knight-errant and win him glory.

The disguise is comic because Dorotea is an intelligent, resourceful woman manipulating the very fantasies that control Don Quixote’s perception. The plan works for a time, but the inn episode later exposes the gap between the supposed princess and the real Dorotea. Her masquerade also leads directly to the famous battle with the wine skins, which Don Quixote mistakes for the giant.