What Did Rizal Read
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By: Lawrence Casaña Nakila
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By: Lawrence Casaña Nakila
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Rizal grew up ina home with ahuge library
which built hisinterests for
books andlearning
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Amidst hispenny-pinching
attitude, he wasstill able to saveto buy books.
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Esteban de Ocampo,in his monographRizal as a Bibliophile,
listed 252 bibliographic cards,not knowing that
the Lopez Museumitself had 99 more.
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Rizal owned avaluable
collection ofmore than 2000 books in Hong
Kong.
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"I have sent my four boxes of books
[part of his library] and other
belongings there. I will pay the bill
when I arrive; if anything happens to
me you will be able to sell all my books
and belongings and keep what you
realize from the sale as reimbursement.The books and other things I value at
about 600 pesos. Goodbye."
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Rizal read a lot of FrenchLiteratures
Authors like:
• Honoré de Balzac
•Alexander Dumas – Pére Three Muskeeters
– Count of Monte Cristo
•Pierre Jean de Beranger
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French Literature…
• Moliere
• Charles Secondat Montesquieu
• Emile Zola• Napoleon
– Memoirs Written from Saint Helene
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Rizal also read
• Daniel Defoe’sRobinson Crusoe
•
CharlesDickens’s DavidCopperfield
•
Hans ChristianAndersen’s FairyTales
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• Beaumarchais’
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of
Figaro—
mayeven havewatched
Mozart’s Operas
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Books about the Philippines
• La Libertad de Comercio en las Islas Filipinas (The FreeTrade in the Philippines) by Ascarraga y Pamero
• Breve Diccionario Etnografico de Filipinas (Brief
Philippine Ethnographic Dictionary) by Blumentritt• Album von Philippinen Typen by Meyer
• El Arichpielago Filipino y las Islas Marianas, Carolinas y
Palaos (The Philippine Islands and the Marianas,Carolines and Palau) by Montero y Vidal
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Rizal owned threedifferent versions ofthe Bible:
• Spanish translation
• Catholic edition
• One translatedfrom the LatinVulgate
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The “PRAGMATIC” Books
• These books show Rizal’s interests increating a Philippine colony in NorthBorneo.
• He had guidebooks to Paris, Germany,the Rhine, Central Italy, and Switzerland
• He also possessed books such as:
– Baille’s Las Maravillas de la Electricidad
– Bairei’s six-volume Studies of Birds
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• Buenet’s Drawings and Ornaments of Architecture
• Baltet’s The Art of Grafting and Budding
• Duyckinck’s Lives and Pictures of the
Presidents of the United States• Money’s Java: or How to Manage a Colony
• Levy’s Treatise on Public and Private
Hygiene
• Money’s Tea Cultivation , Cotton and other
Agricultural Experiments in India
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Money’s How to Manage a Colony
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We can conclude that:
• Rizal had a wide range of interests
–Literature
–
Social Issues –Arts
–Governance
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