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RIZAL AS HISTORIAN
First Voyage Around the World
(Italian) Antonio Pigafetta
Historical works of Marsden,
Raffles, Lord Stanley, and
Wallace in English
Writings of Blumetritt, Jagor,
Virchow in German
Books of M. Jacquet, J. Mallat, &
A. Marche in French
Works of TH Pardo de Tavera &
Pedro Paterno, in Spanish
of
International Association of
Filipinologists
Dr. Ferdinand
Blumentritt
Por Telefono
Rizal wrote Por Telefono in the fall of
1889 in Barcelona as reply to another
slanderer, Fr. Salvador Font who was the
mastermind of banning Noli.
This was under the authorship of Dimas
Alang
Describes in comical vein a telephone
conversation between Fr. Font who was
in Madrid and father provincial of St.
Agustin Convent in Manila.
Por Telefono
Demonstrates Rizals
prophetic insight:
o In the year 1900, Philippines
was connected to Metropolis
by means of telephone laid
out by Anglo-Catalan
company called Trans-Oceanic
Telephone Company.
o Rizal predicted much ahead of
time that people could carry
Christmas in Paris
Rizal and Jose Albert planned to have
sumptuous Christmas dinner fried chicken,
rice and vegetables.
After New Year, Rizal made a brief visit to
London due to two reasons:
o To check up his annotated edition of
Morgas Sucesos with the original copy in
British Museum
o To see Gertrude Beckett for last time
By mid January 1890, he was back in Paris
and suffered a terrible headache.