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• He wrote an essay entitled “AMOR PATRIO”(Love of Country).

• His next article was entitled “LOS VIAJES” (Travels) and followed by
“REVISTA DE MADRID” (Review of Madrid) but the latter was
returned because the publication was ceased because of lack of
funds.
• AUGUST 20, 1882 his article "Amor Patrio" was published in the
Diarong Tagalog, a Manila newspaper edited by Basilio Teodoro.
This was the First article he wrote abroad.
• Amor Patrio (Love of Country) – nationalistic essay, Rizal’s first article
written on Spain’s soil. Under his pen-name Laong Laan. It was published
in two texts – Spanish and Tagalog – the Spanish text was the one originally
written by Rizal in Barcelona, the tagalog text was a Tagalog translation
made by M.H. del Pilar
Bad News from Home
• Rizal received sad news about the cholera that was ravaging
Manila and the provinces according to Paciano’s letter,
dated September 15, 1882
• Another sad news from the Philippines was the chatty letter
from a friend recounting the unhappiness of Leonor Rivera
• In one of his letters (dated May 26, 1882)Paciano advised
his younger brother to finish the medical course in Madrid
• Rizal left Barcelona in the fall of 1882 established himself in
Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Life in Madrid
• November 3, 1882 – Rizal enrolled In the Universidad Central de
Madrid (Central University of Madrid) in two courses – Medicine and
Philosophy and Letters
• Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando – Rizal studied painting and
sculpture
• Rizal’s only extravagance was investing a few pesetas for a lottery
ticket in every draw of the Madrid Lottery
• Rizal spent his leisure time reading and writing at his boarding
house, attending the reunions of Filipino students at the house of the
Paterno brothers (Antonio, Maximo and Pedro) and practicing
fencing and shooting at the gymnasium
• Me Piden Versos (They Ask Me For Verses)- upon the request of
the members of this society, Rizal wrote this poem which he
personally declaimed during the New Year’s Eve reception of the
Madrid Filipinos held in the evening of December 31, 1882
• Rizal economized on his living expenses, and with the money he
saved, he purchased books from a second- hand book store owned
by a certain Señor Roses
• Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Eugene Sue’s The
Wandering Jew- these two books aroused Rizal’s sympathy for the
oppressed and unfortunate people. (This books also inspired him
to write his first novel.
• Antigua Café de Levante – during the summer
twilights, this is where Rizal sipped coffee and
fraternized with the students from Cuba, Mexico,
Argentina etc
• On Saturday evenings, Rizal would visit the home of
Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey (former city mayor of Manila)
who now lived in Madrid with his son (Rafael) and
daughter (Consuelo).
• Circulo Hispano-Filipino (Hispano-Philippine Circle)- a
society of Spaniards and Filipinos which Rizal joined
shortly after his arrival in Madrid in 1882
• Romance with Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
• Rizal was not a handsome man but he possess an aura of
charisma due to his many-splendored talents and novel
characters which made him attractive to romantic young
women.
• Before his romance with Consuelo could blossom to a
serious affair, he suddenly backed-out for two reasons:
• (1)he was still engage to Leonora Rivera; and
• (2)his friend and co-worker in the Propaganda Movement,
Eduardo De Lete was madly in love with Consuelo and he
nourished to break their friendship because of a pretty girl.
Consuelo Ortiga y
Perez
• A La Señorita C. O. y P.
First visit to Paris
• During his first summer vacation in Madrid, Rizal
went to Paris, gay capital of France
• The prices of food, drinks, theatre, tickets, laundry,
hotel accommodations, and transportation were too
high for Rizal’s slender purse so that he commented
in a letter to his family: “Paris is the costliest capital
in Europe.”
• June 17 to August 20, 1883- Rizal sojourn in Paris
• Hotel de Paris- located on 37 Rue de Maubange
• He moved to a cheaper hotel on 124 Rue de
Rennes in the Latin Quarter
• Laennec Hospital- where Rizal observed Dr.
Nicaise treating his patients
• Lariboisiere Hospital- where Rizal observed the
examination of different diseases of women
• Rizal was impressed by the way the Spanish Mason openly and
freely criticized the government policies and lambasted the friars,
which could not be done in Philippines
• March 1883- Rizal joined the Masonic lodge called Acacia in Madrid
• Rizal’s reason for becoming a mason was to secure Freemansory’s
aid in his fight against the friars in the Philippines
• Lodge Solidaridad (Madrid) – Rizal transferred where he became a
Master Mason on November 15, 1890
• February 15, 1892- Rizal was awarded the diploma as Master
Mason by Le Grand Orient de France in Paris
• Science, Virtue and Labor- Rizal’s only Masonic writing; a lecture
which he delivered in 1889 at Lodge Solidaridad, Madrid
• Our hero had experienced financial worries while he was in Europe.
• After Rizal’s departure for Spain, things turned from bad to worse in
Calamba:
1. harvests of rice and sugarcane failed on account of drought and locusts
2. the manager of the Dominican-owned hacienda increased the rentals of
the lands
3. a dreadful pest killed most of the turkeys. Due to hard times in Calamba,
the monthly allowances of Rizal in Madrid were late in arrival and there
were times when they never arrived.
• A touching incident in Rizal’s life in Madrid wherein he was broke
and was unable to take breakfast - Rizal attended his class at the
university, participated in the contest in Greek language and won the
gold medal
• Evening of June 25, 1884- a banquet was
sponsored by the Filipino community to celebrate
the double victory of the Filipino artist in the
National Exposition of Fine Arts in Madrid—Luna’s
Spoliarium winning the first prize and Hidalgo’s
Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace
(Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho),
second prize
Christian Virgins
Exposed to the
Populace
Félix
Resurrección
Hidalgo
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