Mi ultimo adios (the original Spanish). First printing 1897, Hong Kong. Etext available at Project Gutenberg

Rizal, Jose (1887, Berlin) Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Etex…

Zaide, Gregorio (2003), Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist and National Hero. National Bookstore, Manila. ISBN 9710805207

Rizal, Jose (1891, Ghent) El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Et…

Fra tutti il primo Arnaldo Daniello Gran maestro d'amor; ch'a la sua terra Ancor fa onor col suo dir strano e bello.

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.