Florante at Laura

Florante at Laura
Title page of a 1913 book featuring Florante at Laura
AuthorFrancisco Balagtas
LanguageTagalog
GenreFiction, epic poetry
Set inAlbania
Published1838/1853[1]
Publication placeCaptaincy General of the Philippines
ISBN978-1-78435-092-5

Florante at Laura[a] is an 1838 awit written by Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas. The story was dedicated to his former sweetheart María Asunción Rivera, whom he nicknamed "M.A.R." and Selya in Kay Selya ("For Celia").[2][3][4]

The story is loosely based on Balagtas' own biography. He wrote the epic during his imprisonment in Manila in c. 1835 – c. 1836.[5]

  1. ^ Balagtas, Francisco (2012). "Si Balagtas at ang Florante at Laura". In Almario, Virgilio S. (ed.). Florante at Laura (in Filipino) (2nd ed.). Adarna House. p. 25. ISBN 978-971-508-179-5. Tinanggap ni Epifanio de los Santos ang petsang 1838 bilang unang edisyon ng awit bagaman walang ebidensiyang bibliyograpiko si H. Cruz. Gayunman, hanggang noong bago sumiklab ang Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig ay pinakamatanda nang tukoy na edisyon ang inilathala ng Imprenta de los Amigos del Pais noong 1853...
  2. ^ Blanco, John D. (February 24, 2009). Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-520-94369-8.
  3. ^ Hosillos, Lucila V. (October 1984). Originality as vengeance in Philippine literature. New Day Publishers. p. 559. ISBN 978-971-10-0131-5.
  4. ^ Asumen, Constancio Sulapas (September 2011). Flirting with Misadventures: Escapades of an Exotic Life. FriesenPress. pp. 153. ISBN 978-1-77067-614-5.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jurilla-2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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