Gender Masculine
Usage Literature
Meaning & History
Belianís of Greece is the hero of a Spanish chivalric romance novel, "The honour of chivalry", following in the footsteps of the influential Amadis de Gaula. An English abridgement of this novel was published in 1673. It is best known today because it was one of the books spared during the expurgation of Don Quixote's library in Chapter 6 of Part I of Don Quixote.