Roberto González Echevarría continues his Yale course on Cervantes' Don Quixote, focusing on the inserted Novel of the Curious Impertinent in Part One. He argues the tale reflects Cervantes' effort to blend chivalric romance with the Italian novella tradition, an awkward fusion he credits with helping create the modern novel. González Echevarría reads the episode through René Girard's theory of triangulated desire, showing how love in the story is always mediated by a third party. He connects the novel's oral reading at the inn, delivered ironically by the priest, to older traditions of reading literature aloud, and contrasts it with the real love stories of the young guests nearing marriage. The lecture closes with the Battle of the Wine Skins and Don Quixote's interruption, which brings about a court-like scene of reconciliation among the couples, illustrating Cervantes' interest in how mental life is built from mirroring, distorting layers.