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Banquet For Luna and Hidalgo

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Banquet for Luna and Hidalgo

• In 1884 at the Exposcion de Bella Artes in Madrid, two Filipino painters won prizes

Juan Luna y Novicio received gold medal of the first Felix Ressurection Hidalgo a medal of the second class
class for his SPOLIARUM for his Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
• The Filipino colony was Jubilant
over the triumph
• Pedro Paterno held a banquet
to honor the two painters, to
make the Philippines better
know among the politicians and
journalist of Madrid
• Account of banquet given in the
liberal newspaper, El Imparcial (
showed different forces at
works in Filipino movement)
SPANISH PRESENT
 Spanish artist, representative of principal news paper of Madrid
 Various politicians of left- wing liberal or republic affiliation
- Sagismundo Moret, Miguel Morayta, Rafael M. Libra
 Telegram were received from Ministro de Fomento and Ministro de
Ultramar , excusing themselves from attending but “adhering the
intention of the banquet”
 Miguel Azcarraga – Conservative political affiliation, close associated
with Filipinos
- earlier azcarraga offred a toast in the banquet.
 Rafael M. Libra, representative of the Cuban autonomist offered a
toast, propose a toast to the Patria Espanola
 Miguel Azcarraga- second those “ The King of Spain” personification
of the Fatherland
FILIPINO REPRESENTATIVE – among the Filipinos ,Lopez Jaena and
Rizal made a noble speeches

 Lopez Jaena, speech:


“after a dark night of more than three hundred years, the brilliant
sun of justice”
“despite the theocracy, ever despotic and ignorant, living as it does
amid shadows and mystery”
“despite a the colossal power of intransigence, denies you entrance
into the circle of modern culture”
 Went to exalt the pre- Hispanic civilization, so often deprecated
in order deny the capacity of the Filipino modern civilization.
 The triumph of Luna and Hidalgo
- expressing the laments of the people “devoured by the nepotism
and the greed of bureaucracy, chocked by the errors of a semi-
absolute, autocratic, liberticide which maintains with more zeal than
ever the division of races”
 Jose Rizal, speech:
- remark on the opposition to the learning od Spanish in the
Philippines
- “those short-sighted pygmies, who in assuring the present; are not
able to see the future, do not weight the consequence; nurses, who are
themselves diseased; corruption and corruptors”
- for they are dead; they have no breath of life, no soul.
 Exalt Luna and hidalgo as the glory of two peoples- Spanish and
Filipino.
 Proposed a toast to the Filipino youth, “ the sacred hope of my
fatherland”
 August Jose M. Cecilio wrote the enthusiasm of the speech in Los
Dos Mundos
 Spaniards considered Rizal as a filibustero.
LITERARY ACTIVITY 1884-1886
GOVANTES
 Most active campaigner for reforms
 he publish the Los Dos Mundos
 Los dos Mundos
- conference on the commercial potentialities of the Philippines
* outlined a series of proposals (economic, administrative,
government reforms)
* reforms; abolition of censorship and establish of at least limited
parliamentary representation (Filipinos nationalist would work for during
the next ten years)

 El Liberal
- Used the pseudonym P. Dro
- Writings are reformist rather than proper nationalist
- Exudes nationalism of Rizal
 Filipino news paper
- El Globo- El Imparcial- El Liberal
 Lopez Jaena
 passionate not only in his defenses of the Filipino, and open attacks both on
friars and peninsula officials
 Philippine institution finally appeared in November 1884,( incomplete)
 In October he publish a biography of Juan Luna in Los dos Mundo ( firing the
broadside against the control education in the Philippines and friars)
 Los dos Mundo being seized- Lopez Jaena depending Govates and Lete

 In 1885, Rizal left Spain for Paris and later Germany


-began work on his first political novel
- he wrote one or two articles for the Republican newspaper La Publicadad
of Barcelona
Pedro Paterno
 In 1855 also appeared Pedro Paterno
- Ninay: Costumbres Filipinas novel

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