Life and Works of Rizal

WORKS AND
WRITINGS OF RIZAL

By
Christian Jay Areglado Morales
Annotation of Antonio Morga’sSucesos
de lasislas Filipinas
• Rizal used most of his time in the reading room
of the Bibliotheque Nationale (National
Library) checking up his historical annotations
on Morga’s book
Noli Me Tangere

NOLI ME TANGERE PUBLISHED IN

BERLIN (1887)
• Maximo Viola- Rizal’s friend from Bulacan,
arrived in Berlin at the height of Rizal
despondency and loaned him the needed funds
to publish the novel; savior of Noli
• After the Christmas season, Rizal put the
finishing touches on his novel. To save printing
expenses, he deleted certain passages in his
manuscript, including a whole chapter—“Elias
and Salome”
Noli Me Tangere

• February 21, 1887- the Noli was finally

finished and ready for printing
• Berliner Buchdruckrei-Action-Gesselschaft- a
printing shop which charged the lowest rate,
that is,
• 300 pesos for 2,00 copies of the novel
Noli Me Tangere

• March 21, 1887- the Noli Me Tangere came off

the press
• • March 29, 1887- Rizal, in token of his
appreciation and gratitude, gave Viola the
galley proofs of the Noli
• carefully rolled around the pen that he used in
writing it and a complimentary copy, with the
following
• inscription: “To my dear friend, Maximo Viola,
the first to read and appreciate my work—Jose
Rizal”
Noli Me Tangere

• The title Noli Me Tangere is a Latin phrase

which means
• “Touch Me Not”. It is not originally conceived by
Rizal, for he admitted taking it from the Bible
• John 20:17, by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when
she recognized him after his resurrection.
 Noli Me Tangere
• The Noli Me Tangere was a true story of the Philippine conditions during the last decades of
Spanish rule
• Maria Clara – was Leonor Rivera, although in real life she became unfaithful and married an
Englishman
• Ibarra and Elias – represented Rizal himself
• Tasio – the philosopher was Rizal’s elder brother Paciano
• Padre Salvi – was identified by Rizalists as Padre Antonio Piernavieja, the hated Augustinian
friar in Cavite who was killed by the patriots during the Revolution
• Capitan Tiago – was Captain Hilario Sunico of San Nicolas
• Doña Victorina – was Doña Agustina Medel
• Basilio and Crispin – were the Crisostomo brothers of Hagonoy
• Padre Damaso - typical of a domineering friar during the days of Rizal, who was arrogant,
immoral and anti-Filipino
 Solidaridad Association

• RIZAL BECOMES LEADER OF FILIPINOS IN EUROPE

• Asociacion La Solidaridad (Solidaridad Association)- a patriotic society, which
cooperate in the
• crusade fro reforms, was inaugurated on December 31, 1888, with the following
officers: Galicano
• Apacible (president); Graciano Lopez Jaena (vice-president); Manuel Santa
Maria (secretary); MarianoPonce (treasurer) and Jose Ma. Panganiban
(accountant)
• By unanimous vote of all members, Rizal was chosen honorary president
• January 28, 1889- Rizal wrote a letter addressed to the members of the
Asociacion La Solidaridad
 EL FILIBUSTERISMO PUBLISHED IN
GHENT (1891)
• Rizal was busy revising and polishing the manuscript of El Filibusterismo so that
it could be ready for the press
• Rizal had begun writing it in October, 1887, while practicing medicine in
Calamba, the following year (1888), in London;
• he made some changes in the plot and corrected some chapters already written.
He wrote more chapters in Paris and Madrid, and finished the manuscript in
Biarritz on March 29, 1891. It took him, therefore, three years to write his
second novel
EL FILIBUSTERISMO PUBLISHED IN
GHENT (1891)

• Valentin Ventura- the savior of the Fili When

Ventura learned of Rizal’s predicament and
immediately sent him the necessary funds
• September 18, 1891- El Filibusterismo came off the
press Rizal immediately sent on this date two
printed copies to Hong Kong—one for Basa and
other for Sixto Lopez
EL FILIBUSTERISMO PUBLISHED IN
GHENT (1891)
• El Filibusterismo is a sequel to the Noli. It has
little humor, less idealism and less romance
than the Noli Me Tangere. It is more
revolutionary, more tragic than the first novel
• The characters in El Filibusterismo were drawn
by Rizal from real life. Padre Florentino was
Father Leoncio Lopez, Rizal’s friend and priest
of Calamba; Isagani, the poet was Vicente
Ilustre, Batangueño friend of Rizal in Madrid
and Paulita Gomez, the girl who loved Isagani
but married Juanito Pelaez, was Leonor Rivera
EL FILIBUSTERISMO PUBLISHED IN
GHENT (1891)