Philippine Literture

under the Spanish

Period

Presented by: Group 2

Agenda Introduction to Spanish Period
Examples of Spanish Period

Spanish Period contribute to the

Philippines

Important events during Spanish

Period
Introduction to the

Spanish period
 THE SPANISH PERIOD
Spanish rule for the
The spanish at first

The spanish city

first 100 years was PHILIPPINES

of Manila was

viewed the
founded in 1571,
exercised in most LITERATURE IN

Philippines as a
and by the end of
areas through a type SPANISH
"stepping-stone" to
16th century most
of tax farming
the riches of the East
of the coastal and
imported from
Indies (Spice Islands)
lowland areas
America's and known
but, even after the
as the "encomienda". Literatura filipina

from Luzon to
The central en espanol, is a

Portuguese and
Northern

Dutch had foreclose

government in Manila body of literature

Mindanao were
retained a "medieval" made by Filipino

that possibility, the

under Spanish

spanish still
cast until the 19th writers in the

control. century. Spanish language.

maintained their

presence in the

archipelago.
 Example of Spanish Colonial
Philippine Literature
Rizal's two novels, the Noli Me Tangere and its sequel El Filibusterismo,
chronicle the life and ultimate death of Ibarra,
A Filipino educated abroad, who attempts to reform his country through
education.

At the conclusion of the Noli, his efforts end in near-death and exile from
his country. In the Filibusterismo, he returns after reinventing himself as
Simoun, the wealthy jeweler, and hastens social decay by further corrupting
the social fabric till the oppressed react violently to overthrow the system.
But the insurrection is failed and Simoun suffers a violent death.
 Example of Spanish Colonial
Philippine Literature
Following closely on the failed reformist movement, and on Rizal’s novels, was
the Philippine revolution headed by Andres Bonifacio (1863 – 1897). His closest
aide, the college-bred Emilio Jacinto (1875 – 1899), was the revolutionary
organization’s ideologue. Both were admirers of Rizal, and like Rizal, both were
writers and social critics profoundly influenced by the liberal ideas of the
French enlightenment, about human dignity.

Bonifacio’s most important work are his poems, the most well-known being
Pag-Ibig Sa Tinubuang Lupa. Jacinto wrote political essays expressed in the
language of the folk. Significantly, although either writer could have written in
Spanish (Bonifacio, for instance, wrote a Tagalog translation of Rizal’s Ultimo
Adios), both chose to communicate to their fellowmen in their own native
language.

 ANG DOCTRINA CRISTIANA

(THE CHRISTIAN

DOCTRINE)
a Book by Juan de Plasencia

This was the first book printed in the

Philippines in 1593 in xylography or the
first books produced in the European
tradition in the Philippines.

It was written by Fr. Juan de Placencia and Fr.

Domingo Nieva, in Tagalog and Spanish. It contained
the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Regina Coeli, the Ten
Commandments of God, the Commandments of the
Catholic Church, the Seven Mortal Sins, How to
Confess, and the Cathecism.

Three old original copies of this book can still be found at

the Vatican, at the Madrid Musem and at the US
Congress.
Spanish Contributions
Intoducing the Christianity and the teaching of the
Christian Doctrine became the basis of religious
practices.
-The Spaniards introduced Christianity (the Roman Catholic faith)
and succeeded in converting the overwhelming majority of Filipinos.
Christianity was introduced as early as the 16th century with the
coming of Ferdinand Magellan.

The Filipino alphabet ALIBATA was

replaced by Roman/Latin Script alphabet.
-When the Spaniards arrived in 1521 and began to colonize the
islands of the Philippines in 1565, they introduced the Latin script
to the Catholicized Filipinos.
 One of Spain's greatest contributions to
the development of the country was the
one it least wanted

—the unification of the people under its control. The Filipinos were
united, first of all, through a common religion. Spanish education played
a major role in that transformation. The oldest universities, colleges, and
vocational schools, dating as far back as the late 16th century were
created during the colonial period, as well as the first modern public
education system in Asia, established in 1863. During the early years of
Spanish colonization, education was mostly religion oriented and
controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. Spanish friars and missionaries
educated the natives through religion with the aim of converting
indigenous populations to the Catholic faith.


Miguel López de Legazpi

Spain introduced Christianity to the

Philippines in 1565 with the arrival of
Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. Earlier,
beginning in 1350, Islam had been
spreading northward from
Indonesia into the Philippine
archipelago.
Important Events during
Spanish Period
 Colonialization in the
Philippines (1521 – 1898)

Lapu-Lapu
Ferdinand Magellan (1521)
(1480 – 1521)
Was a Datu of Mactan in the Visayas
Was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with
of the Philippines. Lapu-Lapu is
masterminding the first expedition to
widely celebrated as the first Filipino
circumnavigate the world. Magellan was
hero, famously vanquishing
sponsored by Spain to travel west across in
Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand
Atlantic in search of the East Indies. He was the
Magellan and his army in their
one who discovered the Philippines in 1521, he
attempt to colonize Mactan Island.
named our country after King Philip II of Spain.
He was the also one who introduced the
Christianity in Cebu, Philippines.
 Colonialization in the
Philippines (1521 – 1898)
The Battle of Mactan (1521)
The Battle of Mactan was a fierce clash
fought in the Archipelago of the Philippines on
April 27, 1521, prior to Spanish colonization.
The Battle of Mactan was a historical event
that took place six centuries ago. In April 27,
1521. It is the first known and recorded
resistance of the Filipinos against foreign
forces who aimed to invade and conquer the
Philippines.
Diego Silang (1763)
His revolt was fueled by grievances
stemming from Spanish taxation and
abuses, and by his belief in self-
government, that the administration and
leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
and government in the Ilocos be invested in
trained Ilocano officials. He met an Itneg
woman with the name of Gabriela Cariño,
later known as Gabriela Silang.
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GomBurZa
The Propaganda
(1872) Movement (1872-1892)

Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto
Zamora or the "GOMBURZA" are the
three Filipino Catholic priests who met
their tragic end in a public execution
using garrote (a handheld ligature of
rope, scarf, or chain used to strangle a
person). The three subsequently became
martyrs to the cause of Philippine
independence.
was the first Filipino nationalist movement, led by a
Filipino elite and inspired by the Proto nationalist
activism of figures such as José Burgos and by his
execution at the hands of colonial authorities.
Propagandists were largely young men, often mestizos
and creoles whose families could afford to send them to
study in Spanish universities in Madrid and Barcelona.
There, they encountered the tumult of 19th century
political movements inspired by Enlightenment thought,
individual rights, constitutionalism, and anti-clericalism.
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Philippines (1521 – 1898)

Graciano López

y Jaena
was a Filipino journalist, orator,
reformist, and national hero who is
well known for his newspaper, La
Solidaridad. Philippine historians
regard López Jaena, along with
Marcelo H. del Pilar and José Rizal,
as the triumvirate of Filipino
propagandists.
Jose Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the
end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
He is considered the national hero of the Philippines.
One of the most revered figures in Philippine history.
He was a multifaceted intellectual and a political
activist, best known for his political writings that
inspired the Philippine revolution and ultimately led to
his execution by the Spanish colonizers.
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Philippines (1521 – 1898)

Marcelo Hilario del

Pilar y Gatmaitán
Commonly known as Marcelo H. del
Pilar and also known by his pen
name Pláridel, was a Filipino writer,
lawyer, journalist, and freemason.
Del Pilar, along with José Rizal and
Graciano López Jaena, became
known as the leaders of the Reform
Movement in Spain.
La Liga Filipina
(1892)
was a secret organization. It was founded by
José Rizal in the house of Doroteo Ongjunco at
Ilaya Street, Tondo, Manila on July 3, 1892.
The organization derived from La Solidaridad
and the Propaganda movement.
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Katipunan (1896 – 1898)

The Philippine Revolution, called the
Tagalog War by the Spanish, was a
revolution, a civil war and subsequent
conflict fought between the people
and insurgents of the Philippines and
the Spanish colonial authorities of the
Spanish East Indies, under the Spanish
Empire.
Ramón Blanco y
Erenas (1898)
Ramón Blanco Erenas Riera y Polo, 1st Marquess of Peña
Plata was a Spanish brigadier and colonial administrator.
Blanco was forced to deal with the independence
movement led by Katipunan. On the whole, Blanco adopted
a conciliatory stance, seeking to improve Spain's image in
the face of world opinion. Nevertheless, he placed eight
provinces under martial law. Arrests and interrogations
were intensified and many Filipinos died from torture.
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