1. PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
PERIOD

2. ENLIGHTENMENT
• is an 18th century intellectual movement in
Western Europe
that emphasized reason and science in philosophy
and the study of human culture and the natural
world.
• In the Philippines, it mirrored the Filipinos’
desire for reforms.

3. • Journalist, orator from Iloilo
• Pen name: Diego Laura
Wrote FRAY BOTOD
• Went to Spain in 1879 to flee the wrath of
the Spanish friars
• Died of tuberculosis in Barcelona on
January 20, 1896
GRACIANO
LOPEZ - JAENA

4. LA SOLIDARIDAD - official newspaper of the
Propaganda Movement
• Aims:
Philippines be a province of Spain
Representation in the Cortes
Secularization of parishes
Freedom of assembly and speech
Equal rights before the law

5. MARCELO H. DEL
PILAR • Writer, journalist, satirist, revolut
ionary leader, Illustrado
• Editor of Diariong Tagalog
• Went to Spain in 1889 to flee
from the Spanish friars and
authorities
• Died of tuberculosis in
Barcelona on July 4, 1896

6. • Father of Philippine Masonry
• Legacy
Samahang Plaridel (a fellowship
of journalists and other
communicators that aims to
propagate Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s
ideals)

7. • Pen names:
Plaridel, Dolores
Manapat, Piping
Dilat, Pupdoh, Kupang,
Siling
Labuyo, Maitalaga, L.O.
Crame, Carmelo

8. • Works:
Dasalan at Tocsohan
Kaiigat Kayo
Sagot sa Espanya sa Hibik
ng Pilipinas

9. DR. JOSE P. RIZAL
• Poet, essayist, diarist,
correspondent, novelist
• Pen names:
Laong Laan, Dimasalang
• Works:
Noli me Tangere
El Filibusterismo

10. ANTONIO LUNA
• General, doctor, pharmacist
, journalist
• Pen names:
 Tabing-Ilog
• Works:
La Independencia (four-
page daily newspaper)

11. MARIANO PONCE
• Physician, writer
• Pen names: Naning, Kalipulako, tikbalang
• Works:
Efemeridas Filipinas (1914)
Documentos Filipinas (1916)
La Provincia Bulacan(1917)
Wika at Lahi (1917)

12. PEDRO PATERNO
• Politician, poet, novelist, lawyer
• Pen name: Justo Desiderio Magalang
• Works:
Ninay (1885) – the first social novel
in Spanish by a Filipino
Sampaguitas y otras poesias varias
(Jasmines and other Poems) (1880)

13. JOSE MARIA
PANGANIBAN
• Doctor, journalist, orator
• Pen name:
Jomapa, J.M.P.
• Works:
 Anatomia de Regines
 Ang Lupang Tinubuan