THAT title does not refer to any of our present crop of politicians. It is the gist of Chapter 13 of Leon Maria Guerrero's prize-winning biography of our national hero, Jose Rizal. The book is titled 'The First Filipino,' and it won first prize at the Rizal biography-writing contest during the centennial of Rizal's birth in 1961.
THAT title does not refer to any of our present crop of politicians. It is the gist of Chapter 13 of Leon Maria Guerrero's prize-winning biography of our national hero, Jose Rizal. The book is titled 'The First Filipino,' and it won first prize at the Rizal biography-writing contest during the centennial of Rizal's birth in 1961. The National Bookstore commissioned me to translate this book into Filipino.
Marcelo del Pilar already had an education and did not have to come to Europe.' Here one could see that Rizal already knew who his closest political rival would be for the leadership of the expats in Spain.The Barcelona group was active and soon published their own brave newspaper with the same name as their society.