José Rizal
1861–1896
Biography
José Rizal was a Filipino writer, reformer and eye doctor, born in Calamba in 1861 under Spanish colonial rule. He trained as a doctor in Spain and in Europe, returned home in the late 1880s, and joined the Propaganda Movement, which pressed Madrid for reforms during that decade. Many Filipinos regard him as a national hero, although no law or official proclamation has ever formally named him one.
In 1892 Rizal founded La Liga Filipina, a civic society meant to unite the islands. That July he was arrested and exiled to Dapitan on the island of Mindanao, where he spent four years. In 1896 he left for Cuba, intending to work there as a doctor, but he was arrested at a stop in Barcelona. He was tried and executed in Manila on 30 December 1896 for rebellion, although he had not planned or led the revolution that broke out that year.
His two novels, Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), were written in Spanish and are read together as a national epic. They expose the abuses of colonial rule and the power of the friars, and many readers at the time saw them as an inspiration for the revolution. The library holds both, along with a copy under the Tagalog title Ang Filibusterismo. The translations on this site are credited to Charles E. Derbyshire and Pascual Hicaro Poblete.
This biography was written by a language model. The sources below are where to check it; treat details with care.
Books
Ang "Filibusterismo" (Karugtóng ng Noli Me Tangere)
by José Rizal (translated by Patricio Mariano)
Thirteen years after the events of Noli Me Tangere, a rich and secretive jeweller called Simoun travels up the Pasig on the steamer Tabò and makes himself indispensable to the men who rule the colony. While students campaign for an academy of Castilian and a farmer loses his…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere)
by José Rizal
El Filibusterismo (transl. The filibusterism; The Subversive or The Subversion, as in the Locsín English translation, are also possible translations), also known by its alternative English title The Reign of Greed, is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José…
Summary from Wikipedia: El filibusterismo (CC BY-SA 4.0)Noli Me Tangere
by José Rizal (translated by Pascual Hicaro Poblete)
Crisóstomo Ibarra returns to Manila after seven years of study in Europe, hoping to build a school in his home town and marry the beautiful María Clara. Instead he runs into the power of the friars, the gossip of the town and a web of old crimes that reaches back to his own…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.Noli me tangere: Filippijnsche roman
by José Rizal (translated by Abraham Anthony Fokker)
Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish…
Summary from Wikipedia: Noli Me Tángere (novel) (CC BY-SA 4.0)Noli me tángere: Novela Tagala, Edición completa con notas de R. Sempau
by José Rizal
Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish…
Summary from Wikipedia: Noli Me Tángere (novel) (CC BY-SA 4.0)The Reign of Greed
by José Rizal (translated by Charles E. Derbyshire)
The sequel to Rizal's Noli Me Tangere follows Simoun, a wealthy jeweller who returns to the Spanish Philippines with a plan. Charles Derbyshire's translation of a 1891 nationalist novel. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
by José Rizal (translated by Charles E. Derbyshire)
Returning to Manila after seven years in Europe, Crisostomo Ibarra finds his father dead and the colony ruled by friars. Jose Rizal's 1887 novel, in this early English version, helped start the Philippine revolution. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.