Rizal’s Second Travel to

Europe

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 Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor

Boarding house in Writings in London

Primrose Hill owned • Article for La
Solidaridad
and managed
• La vision de fray
by the Beckett family
London Rodriguez
• Letter to the Young
Women of Malolos
British Museum (May 25, 1888 to mid-March 1889) • Specimens of Tagal
folklore
Dr. Reinhold Rost

Antonio de Morga's
Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas
 London
(May 25, 1888 to mid-March 1889)

• Short visit to Madrid and Barcelona, Spain

• February 1889, Graciano Lopez Jaena founded La
Solidaridad
• Transformed old materials like Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas, Japanese and Filipino fables into fresh
interesting materials adapted to prevailing
situations during 19th century
 Paris
(mid-March 1889 to January 28, 1890)

• Stayed with Valentin Ventura

• Found a small room with Justo Trinidad and
Jose Albert
• Spent long hours at Bibliotheque Nationale
or National Library in Paris
• Projects
• Kidlat club
• Indios Bravos
 Juan Luna

Paris
(mid-March 1889 to January 28, 1890) The Bousteads
Pardo de Tavera

• Writing of another satirical booklet titled

Por Telefono by the name Dimasalang
• Frequently visited Pardo de Taveras, the
Venturas, the Lunas, the Bousteads, and
others
• Reasons for visiting London:
• Visit Gertrude Beckett
• Compare his annotated edition with original
copy in British Museum
 Belgium
(January to August1890)

Moved from Paris to Brussels, Belgium on

January 28, 1890

Roommates Jose Albert and Jose Alejandrino

(engineering student) in Jacoby sisters’ boarding house

Medical doctor in a medical clinic

Continued writing El Filibusterismo and for La Solidaridad

 Belgium
(January to August1890)

Filipinas Dentro de Cien Años Unpleasant news he heard while in

Brussels
Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos • Gambling activities of Filipinos in Spain
• Filing of lawsuit against his father
Calamba Agrarian problem • Ejectment of tenants from their lands
• Deportation of Paciano and Antonio
Lopez and Silvestre Ubaldo to Mindoro
• Banishing of Manuel Hidalgo in Bohol
 July 1890 – his family lost
the Calamba case against
the friars
Arrival in Madrid on
August 1890
Leaving Madrid and going
to Hongkong
Death of his friends and fellow
propagandists Jose Maria Panganiban
and Feliciano Gonzales Timbang
Wrote the legend of Maria Makiling, poem A
Mi Musa (To My Muse), article “How the
Philippines are Governed
Madrid
(1890 to 1891)
Rizal’s Romantic
Encounters
 Gertrude Beckett
(“Gettie” or “Totie”)

Date: Around 1888 to 1889

Place: Liverpool, England in the lodgings of Charles

Beckett family on 37 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill

Memories: Reason of separation:

• Gertrude would bring Rizal’s morning • Rizal have commitments
breakfast in the custom of the English to fulfill and cannot marry
• She would sit as his model when leisure Gertrude
allowed Rizal to Sculpt.
Date: Around 1889 (Centennial of the
French Revolution) Nellie Boustead
(“Nelly”)
Place: Eduardo Boustead’s Villa in
Biarritz, France

Memory:
• Spent their afternoon fencing with each other in
the Luna Backyard

Reason of separation:
• Nelly wants Rizal to convert to Protestantism
• Mrs. Boustead
• Rizal was short of cash
 Suzanne Jacoby Thill
(“La Petite” or “Little Suzanne”)

Date: Around 1889 to 1890 Place: Belgium; Boarding house of the

Jacoby Sisters

Memory: Reason of separation:

• Walking down the streets • Rizal went to Madrid when his
of Brussels family lost the case (hacienda
• Belgium summertime de Calamba case) against the
festival friars.
Date: Around 1882

Place: Calamba, Laguna

Memory:
• Study sessions with Rizal, as her tutor, and exchange of
letters during their long distance relationship

Reason of separation:
• Aling Betang or Silvestra Bauzon’s interception

Leonor Rivera
(“Taimis”)
Tension Between Male Friends
 Antonio Luna

August 1980, Rizal attended a social

reunion of the Filipinos in Madrid
After drinking so many glasses, one of them,
Antonio Luna, became drunk.
Luna uttered certain unsavory remarks about
Nelly.
Angered by the slanderous remarks, he challenged
Luna, his friend, to a duel.
 Antonio Luna
Filipinos tried to pacify Rizal and Luna,
pointing out to both that such a duel would
damage their cause in Spain.

He apologized for his bad remarks about the

girl. Rizal immediately accepted his apology,
and the two became good friends again.

Letter from Juan Luna

Wenceslao E. Retana

Press agent of the friars in Spain

Used to attack the Filipinos, including Rizal, in

various newspaper in Madrid

Because he believed that discretion is the better

part of valor, and, more so, to save his own
skin, Retana at once published a retraction and
an apology in the newspapers.
 Wenceslao E. Retana
The incident silenced Retana’s pen against
Rizal.
He developed a great admiration for the latter,
and years afterward he wrote the first
book-length biography of the greatest Filipino
hero

This biography of Rizal by Retana is entitled

“Vida y Escrito del Dr. Jose Rizal."
• Year 1890 – rivalry between Rizal and Del Pilar
• Del Pilar – owner of La Solidaridad
• Graciano Lopez Jaena – editor
• New Year’s Day of 1891 – election of a leader
called Responsible

Marcelo H. del Pilar

• Rizalistas vs. Pilaristas
• Rizal declined the position and decided to
abdicate his leadership and leave Madrid.
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