Isabelo delos reyes biography of william hill
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Parts i and ii of this triptych (nlr 27 and 28) explored the complex transnational contexts, literary and political, that shaped the incendiary anticolonial novels (Noli Me Tangere, 1887, and El Filibusterismo, 1891) of the Philippines’ ‘founding father’ José Rizal. Part iii considers how developments in Cuba, Europe, and the Far East framed his final years—and how, after Rizal’s execution, his nationalist contemporary Isabelo de los Reyes smuggled back to the American-colonized Philippines what he had learned from anarchist cellmates in the dungeons of Barcelona.footnote1
Having packed off virtually the entire edition of El Filibusterismo to his trusted friend José Basa in Hong Kong and wound up his remaining affairs, Rizal left Europe on October 19, 1891. Except for a single sombre day, he would never set foot on it again. The timing was well chosen. The notorious Valeriano Weyler’s four-year term as Spanish Captain-General of the Philippines would end within a month. His successor, General Eulogio Despujol, was thought to be much less ferocious.
Rizal’s family had repeatedly warned him not to come back to the Philippines—with good reason. His 1887 Noli Me Tangere had been a brilliant, blistering attack on clerical cruelty and corru
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In 1887, at the Madrid Exposición Filipina, a 23-year-old indio named Isabelo de los Reyes, living in colonial Manila, won a silver medal for a huge Spanish-language manuscript which he called El Folk-Lore Filipino. He composed this text in unwitting tandem with José Rizal (then aged 25), who was wandering around continental Europe composing the incendiary novel Noli Me Tangere, which earned him martyrdom in 1896 and, later, eternal status as Father of His Country and First Filipino.
Who was Isabelo? He was born in 1864 in the Northern Luzon archiepiscopal town of Vigan, to parents of the Ilocano ethnic group, the vast majority of whom were, in those days, illiterate. His mother, however, was evidently a poet of some quality, so that at the Madrid and later expositions her poetry was displayed for Spaniards, Parisians, and people in St. Louis. This accomplishment did not save her marriage, and the young Isabelo was entrusted to a well-off relative who sent him to a seminary in Vigan, where he organized a demonstration against abusive behaviour by the peninsular-Spanish Augustinians; then on to the College of San Juan de Letran and finally, for a degree as Notary Pub
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The Rooster's Egg: Isabelo deceive los Reyes and El folk-lore filipino
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