“MGA BIGATILYO”
Marcelo H. del Pilar Jose Rizal Antonio Luna
Members of La Solidaridad and Los Bravos Indios sa Spain.
*I really need to draw Ponce.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Marcelo H. del Pilar, better known by his pen name Plaridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason. He was born in Bulacan. Marcelo H. del Pilar’s reputation as a propagandist was already established before an order for his arrest forced him to flee the country in 1880. Gifted with the common touch, he found ready audiences in the cockpits, the plazas, and the corner tiendas of his native Bulacan. Unlike Rizal who wrote his novels in Spanish, a fact which cut him off from most Filipinos who did not know the language, del Pilar wrote his propaganda pamphlets in simple Tagalog. His earlier works consists of anti-friar campaign and is a staunch critic of the Spanish friars’ rule in the country.
Tidbit: La verdad para todos (The Truth for All) – May 31, 1889 Rizal’s first article.
Hindi actually marunong mag-Tagalog si Rizal.
