Chapter 9-14

• Rizal and Viola left Berlin


  May 11, 1887
• Dresden

  Rizal and Viola tarried for sometimes in Dresden
• Things they did in Dresden

  • Visited Dr. Adolph B. Meyer
  • Impressed by painting of Prometheus Bound in the Museum of Art
  • Met Dr. Jagor and heard plan about Leitmeritz to see Blumentritt
• Rizal and Viola arrived at the railroad station of Leitmeritz


  May 1887
• First meeting with Blumentritt

  Professor Blumentritt was waiting for them at the station carrying a pencil sketch of Rizal to identify his friend
• Rizal stayed in Leitmeritz


  May 13 to 16, 1887
• Things they did in Leitmeritz

  • Enjoyed hospitality of Blumentritt family
  • Blumentritt invited them to a beer garden
  • Rizal met some Germans including the Burgomaster
• Rizal's ability to speak German


  He said it took him 11 months to master the language
• Places they visited in Prague

  • Tomb of Copernicus
  • Museum of natural history
  • Bacteriological laboratory
  • Cave where San Juan Nepomuceno was imprisoned
• They arrived at Vienna


  May 20
• People they met in Vienna

  • Norfenfals, one of the greatest novelists
  • Masner and Nordman, Austrian scholars
• Danubian Voyage to Lintz

  Rizal observed the river sights, barges, flowers, plants, boats with families, and settlements
• Places they visited after Lintz

  • Munich
  • Nuremburg
  • Ulm
  • Rheinfall
• They stayed in Switzerland and continued tour to Basel, Bern, Laussane, and Geneva


  June 2 to 3 1887
• Rizal's 26th birthday - he treated Viola to a blowout


  June 19, 1887
• Rizal and Viola parted ways, Viola returned to Barcelona


  June 23, 1887
• Rizal was outraged by the deplorable conditions of the primitive Igorots exhibited in the 1887 Madrid Exposition
• Rizal wrote a letter to Blumentritt stating "We want an industrial revolution, but not an exhibition of human beings who are compelled to live almost outdoors and died of nostalgia and pneumonia or typhus"
• Places Rizal visited in Italy

  • Turin
  • Milan
  • Venice
  • Florence
  • Rome
• Rizal reached Rome


  June 27, 1887
• Rizal visited the Vatican for the first time


  June 29, 1887
• Rizal was fascinated by the magnificent edifices, particularly of St. Peter's Church, the St. Peter's Square, the papal guards and the atmosphere of religious devotion
• After a week in Rome, Rizal prepared to return to the Philippines
• Rizal was warned by his family and friends to return home due to the publication of the Noli Me Tangere
• Rizal decided to return to the Philippines for the following reasons: (1) To operate on his mother's eyes, (2) To serve his people, (3) To find out how the Noli affected Filipinos and Spaniards, and (4) To inquire why Leonor Rivera remained silent
• Rizal wrote to his father, announcing his homecoming


  June 29, 1887
• Rizal arrived in Manila


  August 5
• Rizal returned to Calamba, his family welcomed him affectionately


  August 8
• In Calamba, Rizal established a medical clinic and patients flocked to him, he was called "Doctor Uliman"
• Rizal opened a gymnasium for young folks, where he introduced European sports
• A storm broke over Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere after his arrival
• Governor General Terrero refused to be intimidated by the friars who clamored for harsh measures against people who read the Noli
• Titles of pamphlets published by Fr. Jose Rodriguez to blast the Noli


  • Porque no los he de leer? (Why Should I not Read Them?).
  • Guardaos de ellos. Porque? (Beware of Them. Why?).
  • Y_que me dice usted de la peste? (And What Can You Tell Me of Plague?).
  • Porquetriufan los impios? (Why Do the Impious Truimph?).
  • Cree ustedque de versa no hay purgatorio? (Do You Think There Is Really No Purgatory?).
  • Hay o no hay infierno? (Is There or Is There No Hell?).
  • Que le pareceausted de esoslibelos? ? (What Do You Think of These Libels?).
  • Confession o condenacion? (Confession or Damnation?).
• Many Filipinos were forced to buy the pamphlets in order not to displease the friars, but they did not believe what their author said
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Dr.Antonio Ma. Regidor, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce and other Filipino reformists rushed to uphold the truths of the Noli
• Rev. Vicente Garcia, a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, provided a brilliant defense of the Noli against the arguments of Fr. Rodriguez
• Governor General Terrero assigned a bodyguard, Lt. Jose Taviel de Andrade, to protect Rizal in Calamba
• Governor General Terrero ordered a government investigation of the friar estates in Calamba to remedy inequities in land taxes and tenant relations
• Rizal had to leave Calamba because his presence was jeopardizing the safety of his family and friends, and he could fight better his enemies and serve his country's cause by writing in foreign countries
• Rizal left Manila for Hong Kong on board the Zafiro


  February 3, 1888