Drs. Patricia Fink and John Allen presenting the gift edition of their book to Eulalio Ferrer, the Founder of the Museum. 

Dr. John (Jay) Allen and Dr. Patricia Fink were invited to give their illustrated lecture on "Don Quijote en el arte y pensamiento de Occidente" at the Museo Iconografico del Quijote in Guanajuato, Mexico, last November at the 18th annual Coloquio Cervantino. They have since donated most of their Cervantes collection to the library of the Museo. Allen’s recent publications include: “The Lateral aposentos of the Corral de la Cruz: Thinking Outside the Box” (Review article), Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84 (September, 2007): 777-86, and “Cervantes: Arte y Pensamiento. Entrevista con John J. Allen,” by María Teresa Elizarrarás, Revista de Estudios Cervantinos 3 (Oct.-Nov. 2007), www.estudioscervantinos.org. The latest 'edition' of his Cátedra Don Quixote (the 26th) will be out later this year, with a new appendix defending his retention of the episode of the theft and recovery of Sancho's rucio and rejecting Francisco Rico's decision to banish those passages to an appended note. Don Quixote: Hero or Fool? Remixed, a merger of his two monographs from 1969 and 1979, will also be published this year by Juan de la Cuesta Press.