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15 Rizal in Brussels and Madrid - Part 2 Valentin Ventura Funds Rizal's El Filibusterismo

Valentin Ventura, a compatriot of Rizal from Paris, learned of Rizal's financial problems and helped fund the publication of his novel El Filibusterismo. Ventura assured Rizal in a letter that he had funds available and encouraged Rizal to let him know if he needed more money without having to ask others. Rizal began writing El Filibusterismo in 1887 and it was published in September 1891 in Ghent, Belgium, as mentioned in a letter to Mariano Ponce. The draft was written in several European cities as Rizal traveled.

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15 Rizal in Brussels and Madrid - Part 2 Valentin Ventura Funds Rizal's El Filibusterismo

Valentin Ventura, a compatriot of Rizal from Paris, learned of Rizal's financial problems and helped fund the publication of his novel El Filibusterismo. Ventura assured Rizal in a letter that he had funds available and encouraged Rizal to let him know if he needed more money without having to ask others. Rizal began writing El Filibusterismo in 1887 and it was published in September 1891 in Ghent, Belgium, as mentioned in a letter to Mariano Ponce. The draft was written in several European cities as Rizal traveled.

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Rizal in Brussels and Madrid – Part 2

Valentin Ventura funds


Rizal’s El Filibusterismo
Valentin Ventura funds Rizal’s El
Filibusterismo
Rizal was already desperate in resuming the
of running El Filibusterismo, when a
compatriot from Paris, France learned about
his financial problems.
Valentin Ventura
(1860-1935)
 Valentin Ventura
- A compatriot from Paris, France who
learned about his financial problems.

-He financed the publication of Rizal’s El


Filibusterismo.
Letter of Valentin Ventura
 “At this moment I received your letter of yesterday and without
loosing time I am answering it, so that you can do what seems
to you best, without thinking of the questions of funds.”
 “Yesterday I sent you two hundred francs and in the letter I
wrote you, I told you to let me know if you needed more, if you
need it, without having resort to anyone. Precisely I am well off
now with funds that I do not need.”
Making of El
Filibusterismo
Making of El Filibusterismo
• He began writing the novel in June 1887.
• It was published in the middle of September 1891.
• It was Published at Ghent, Belgium.
• He mentioned this in his letter to Mariano Ponce.
• The draft of the novel was written in different cities of Europe
such as London, Paris, Madrid, Biarritz, and Brussels.
Making of El Filibusterismo

✣Rizal dedicated this work to the three martyred


priests who were executed in this gallows in
Bagumbayan (Luneta).

✣ The three martyred priests: Mariano Gomez (85


years), Jose Burgos ( 30 years), and Jacinto
Zamora (35 years).
El FILIBUSTERISMO

✣ The novel was a sequel to Rizal’s earlier work the


Noli Me Tangere.

✣ In reading the work, there areas of humor, romance,


and revolution.

✣ In this work of Rizal, he was judged as separist in


some points.

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