''Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal'', translated as "Life and Writings of Dr.

José Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national he ...

”, is a biography of Rizal written by

Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (September 28, 1862 – January 21, 1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century Spain, Spanish polymath. He was a civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biogra ...

, a 19th-century Spanish civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, publisher, bibliophile,

Filipiniana Filipiniana, or originally Filipiñana, based on the definition by Isagani Medina from "Collection Building: Filipiniana", in his ''In Developing Special Library Collections, Filipiniana: Proceedings'' (November 1992), are Philippine-related bo ...

collector, and Philippine scholar. The 512-page book was published by Librería General de Victoriano Suárez of

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, Spain, in 1907. It contains works of Rizal such as poems and essays in "Spanish of literary merit"; some "translations and short papers" written in Tagalog, German, French, and English; and a complete listing of Rizal’s writings.Knight, Kevin
José Mercado Rizal
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for W.E. Retana’s book on Rizal was written by Javier Gómez de la Serna, while the

epilogue An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος ''epílogos'', "conclusion" from ἐπί ''epi'', "in addition" and λόγος ''logos'', "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the w ...

was written by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). ''Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal'' is the first biographical account of the life of Rizal written by a non-Filipino author (the second is '' Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr'' by British author

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)..

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