Mga akda ni graciano lopez jaena

Years back, I visited the Ateneo Barcelones, which Lopez Jaena frequented to study and give speeches. “Ateneo” means a cultural center, an association, a library, an archive.

Located near the Ramblas, the famed boulevard in the city’s center, the Ateneo was the quintessential gentlemen’s library with long study desks with their own lamps, book-lined walls, cushioned chairs, and windows with a marvelous view of the garden.

Sino ang asawa ni graciano lopez jaena

The scholarly setting surely must have inspired Lopez Jaena to research lengthily and improve on his oratorical skills. The Barcelones, a somewhat stuffy library, must have contrasted with his appearance. Jose Alejandrino, a fellow Filipino who was studying in Belgium, encountered the orator and described him as “the personification of slovenliness.”

Lopez Jaena got away with his slovenliness by prefacing his talks with “his obscure and unknown name, a stranger among you with a physiognomy denoting the character of far-away