NOLI ME TANGERE CHARACTERS

Crisóstomo Ibarra Basilio

Also known in his full name as Juan Crisóstomo The elder son of Sisa.
Ibarra y Magsalin, a Filipino who studied in Europe
for 7 years, the love interest of Maria Clara.  Son of Crispín
the deceased Don Rafael Ibarra; Crisostomo changed The younger son of Sisa who died from the
his surname from Eibarramendia to Ibarra, from his punishment from the soldiers from the false
ancestor's surname. accusation of stealing an amount of money.
Elías Padre Sibyla
Ibarra's mysterious friend, a master boater, also a Hernando de la Sibyla, a Filipino friar.  He is
fugitive.  He was referred to at one point as the pilot. described as short and has fair skin.
He wants to revolutionize his country.  Ibarra's
grandfather condemned his grandfather of burning a Kaptain Tiago
warehouse, making Elias the fugitive he is.
Also known in his fullname as Don Santiago de los
María Clara Santos the known father of María Clara but not the
real one; lives in Binondo.
María Clara de los Santos, Ibarra's sweetheart; the
illegitimate daughter of Father Dámaso and Pía Alba. Padri Salví

Father Dámaso Also known in his full name as Bernardo Salví, a

secret admirer of María Clara.
Also known in his full name as Dámaso Verdolagas,
Franciscan friar and María Clara's biological father. Pilosopo Tasyo

Don Filipo Also known as Don Anastasio, portrayed in the novel

as a pessimist, cynic, and mad by his neighbors.
A close relative of Ibarra, and a Filibuster.
The Alférez
Linares
Chief of the Guardia Civil; mortal enemy of the
A distant nephew of Don Tiburcio de Espadana, the priests for the power in San Diego.
would-be fiance of Maria Clara.
Don Tiburcio
Captain General
Spanish husband of Donya Victorina who is limp and
The most powerful official in the Philippines, a hater submissive to his wife; he also pretends to be a
of secular priests and corrupt officials, and a friend of doctor.
Ibarra.
Doña Victorina
Captain Pablo
Victorina de los Reyes de De Espadaña, a woman
The Leader of the rebels, whose family was who passes herself off as a Peninsular.
destroyed because of the Spanish.
Doña Consolación
Tarcilo and Bruno
Wife of the Alférez, another woman who passes
Brothers, whose father was killed by the Spaniards. herself as a Peninsular; best remembered for her
Sisa abusive treatment of Sisa.

The mother of Basilio and Crispín, who went insane Pedro

after losing her sons. Abusive husband of Sisa who loves cockfighting.
 EL FILIBUSTERISMO CHARACTERS

Simoun Juliana de Dios, the girlfriend of Basilio, and the

youngest daughter of Kabesang Tales
Crisóstomo Ibarra reincarnated as a wealthy jeweler,
bent on starting a revolution Ben Zayb

Basilio Abraham Ibañez is his real name. He is a journalist

who thinks he is the only one thinking in the
Sisa's son, now an aspiring doctor Philippines
Isagani Placido Penitente
poet and Basilio's best friend; portrayed as emotional a student of the University of Santo Tomas who is
and reactive; Paulita Gómez' boyfriend before being always miserable, and therefore controls his temper
dumped for fellow student Juanito Peláez
Quiroga
Kabesang Tales
a Chinese businessman who dreamt of being a consul
Telesforo Juan de Dios, a former cabeza de of a Consulate of China in the Philippines. He hid
barangay (barangay head) who resurfaced as the Simoun's weapons inside his house
feared Luzón bandit Matanglawin (Tagalog
for Hawkeye); his father, Old Man Selo, dies Old Man Selo
eventually after his own son Tano, who became a
guardia civil, unknowingly shoots his grandfather in father of Kabesang Tales. He raised the sick and
an encounter young Basilio after his mother Sisa had died

Don Custodio Father Fernandez

Custodio de Salazar y Sánchez de Monteredondo, a the priest-friend of Isagani. He promised to Isagani

famous journalist who was asked by the students that he and the other priests will give in to the
about his decision for the Academia de Castellano. In students' demands
reality, he is quite an ordinary fellow who married a Attorney Pasta
rich woman in order to be a member of Manila's high
society one of the great lawyers of mid-Hispanic Manila

Paulita Gómez Captain-General

the girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of Doña The powerful highest official of the Philippines
Victorina, the old India who passes herself off as a
Padre Sibyla
Peninsular, who is the wife of the quack doctor
Tiburcio de Espadaña. In the end, she and Juanito Hernando de la Sibyla, a Filipino friar and now vice-
Peláez are wed, and she dumps Isagani, believing that rector of the University of Santo Tomas (U.S.T.)
she will have no future if she marries him

Father Florentino

Isagani's godfather, and a secular priest; was engaged

to be married, but chose the priesthood instead, the
story hinting at the ambivalence of his decision as he
chooses an assignment to a remote place, living in
solitude near the sea.

Huli
 SOMES POEMS OF RIZAL

1. Mi Ultimo Adios When Thou art scarcely born?

Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun 6. To the Virgin Mary

caressed,
Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden Lost, Dear Mary, giving comfort and sweet place
With gladness I you my Life, sad and To all afflicted mortals; thou the spring
repressed; Whence flows a current of relief, to bring
And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at Our soil fertility that does not cease;
its best,
I would still give it to you for your welfare 7. To the Filipino Youth
at most.
Hold high the brow serene,
2. My First Inspiration O youth, where now you stared.
Let the bright be sheen
Why do the scented bowers Of your grace be seen
In fragrant fray Fair hope of my fatherland!
Rival each other’s flowers
This festive day? 8. The Song of the Traveler

3. Through Education Our Motherland Like to a leaf that is fallen and withered,
Receives Light Tossed by the tempest from pole unto pole;
Roams the pilgrim abroad without purpose,
The vital breath of prudent education Roams without love, without country or
Instills a virtue of enchanting power; soul.
She lifts the motherland to highest station
And endless dazzling glories on her shower.
And as the zephyr’s gentle exhalation
Revives the matrix of the fragrant flower,
So education multiplies her gifts of grace;
With prudent hand imparts them to the
human race.

4. The Intimate Alliance Between Religion

and Good Education

As the climbing ivy over lefty elm

Creeps tortuously, together the adornment
Of the verdant plain, embilishing
Each other and together growing,
But should the kindly elm refused its aid

5. To the Child Jesus

How, God-Child hast Though come

To earth in cave forlom?
Does Fortune now deride Thee