Struggles of Rizal when he started writing Noli Me Tangere Flashcards
LITERARY INFLUENCE (5)
- Voltaire
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Victor Hugo
- Eugène Sue
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rizal wrote the first half of Noli me Tangere in __________ (in Europe) from 1884-1885 while he was studying medicine. The second half of Noli me Tangere was written from time-to-time in ________, starting February 21, 1887.
Madrid, Spain (1884-1885)
Germany (starting February 21, 1887)
1885 - Pedro Paterno published his ____, a novel sub-titled Costumbres filipinas (Philippines Customs)
Ninay
helped Rizal overcome self-doubt and fear
Saturnina Rizal-Hidalgo together with his husband Manuel Hidalgo
Supported Rizal: Challenge in finding a publisher (5)
- Maximo Viola
- Jose Ma. Basa
- Mariano Ponce
- Valentin Ventura
- Graciano López Jaena
- Rizal‘s friend from Bulacan, arrived in Berlin at the height of Rizal’s despondency and loaned him the needed funds to publish the novel
- savior of Noli
- March 21, 1887
Maximo Viola
amount of money Maximo Viola loaned
300 pesos for 2,000 copies of the novel (Berliner Buchdruckerei-Aktiengesellschaft)
- businessman and supporter of Filipino Nationalism
- assets confiscated
Jose Ma. Basa
- close friend of Rizal
- faced persecution
- flee to HONG KONG
Mariano Ponce
- close friend of Rizal
- imprisonment
Valentin Ventura
- promoted “Noli Me Tangere”
- faced persecution
- Left Philippines
Graciano López Jaena
Jose Rizal’s works, particularly “Noli Me Tangere,” faced relentless censorship and opposition from Spanish authorities during the colonial era. Censorship measures included ________________ (3)
banning, confiscating, and even burning copies of his works.
Msgr. Pedro Payo (a Dominican) sent a copy of Noli to _____________ of the University of Sto. Tomas for examination by a committee of the faculty.
The report of the faculty members of University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was ―heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religious order and anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order.
Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria
a committee composed of priest and laymen
Permanent Commission of Censorship
Augustinian cura of Tondo, head of the committee -found the novel to contain subversive ideas against the Church and Spain, and recommended ―that the importation, reproduction, and circulation of this pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited.
Fr. Salvador Font
- a satirical work as a reply to another slanderer, Fr. Salvador Font, who masterminded the banning of his Noli, in the fall of 1889
- it was published in booklet form in Barcelona, 1889, this satirical pamphlet under the authorship of ___________
- is a witty satire that ridicules Father Font.
Por Telefono
Dimasalang
Augustinian priest, published a series of eight pamphlets under the general heading Cuestiones de Sumo Interes (Questions of Supreme Interest) to blast the Noli and other anti-Spanish writings
Fr. Jose Rodriguez
‘whoever reads the Noli novel will commit a mortal sin.’
“Caiingat Cayo”
Spanish academician of Madrid, who formerly criticized the Noli in an article published in La Espańa Moderna (a newspaper of Madrid) in January, 1890
Vicente Barrantes
- a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian of the Manila Cathedral and a Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis
- -writing under the penname _____________, wrote a defense of the Noli which was
published in Singapore as an appendix to a
pamphlet dated July 18, 1888, he blasted the arguments of Fr. Rodriguez
- Reverend Fr. Vicente Garcia
- Justo Desiderio Magalang
