Rizal in Brussels and Madrid – Part 2

Valentin Ventura funds

Rizal’s El Filibusterismo
Valentin Ventura funds Rizal’s El
Filibusterismo
Rizal was already desperate in resuming the
of running El Filibusterismo, when a
compatriot from Paris, France learned about
his financial problems.
Valentin Ventura
(1860-1935)
  Valentin Ventura
- A compatriot from Paris, France who
learned about his financial problems.

-He financed the publication of Rizal’s El

Filibusterismo.
 Letter of Valentin Ventura
 “At this moment I received your letter of yesterday and without
loosing time I am answering it, so that you can do what seems
to you best, without thinking of the questions of funds.”
 “Yesterday I sent you two hundred francs and in the letter I
wrote you, I told you to let me know if you needed more, if you
need it, without having resort to anyone. Precisely I am well off
now with funds that I do not need.”
Making of El
Filibusterismo
 Making of El Filibusterismo
• He began writing the novel in June 1887.
• It was published in the middle of September 1891.
• It was Published at Ghent, Belgium.
• He mentioned this in his letter to Mariano Ponce.
• The draft of the novel was written in different cities of Europe
such as London, Paris, Madrid, Biarritz, and Brussels.
 Making of El Filibusterismo

✣Rizal dedicated this work to the three martyred

priests who were executed in this gallows in
Bagumbayan (Luneta).

✣ The three martyred priests: Mariano Gomez (85

years), Jose Burgos ( 30 years), and Jacinto
Zamora (35 years).
 El FILIBUSTERISMO

✣ The novel was a sequel to Rizal’s earlier work the

Noli Me Tangere.

✣ In reading the work, there areas of humor, romance,

and revolution.

✣ In this work of Rizal, he was judged as separist in

some points.