Noli Me Tangere

• 1884 – Madrid, Rizal began to write the novel.
• 1885 – Paris, finished the half of

  the second half of the novel.
• 1886 (April – June) – Wilhelmsfeld, wrote the last few chapters of Noli.
• 1887 (February 21) – Noli was finally finished and ready for printing.
• 1887 (Christmas Day) –

  Maximo Viola shocked to find out that Rizal living in poverty and sickly due to lack of proper nourishment.
• The chapter, “Elias and

  Salome” was deleted due to

  lack of fund.
• Printing Press (Berliner Buchdruckrei – Action

  Gesselchaft) charged 300 pesos for 2,000 copies.
• 1888 (March 21) – Noli came off

  the press.
• 1888 ( March 29) – Rizal gave the galley proof of Noli to Viola.
• Ibarra or Crisostomo, is the protagonist in the story, son of a Filipino businessman, Don Rafael Ibarra.
• Maria Clara - She was raised by Capitán Tiago, San Diego's

  cabeza de barangay.
• Capitan Tiago - Filipino businessman and the cabeza de barangay or

  head of barangay of the town of San Diego.
• Padre Damaso Verdolagas - is a Franciscan friar and

  the former parish curate of San Diego.
• Elias - Ibarra's mysterious friend and ally.
• Elias He wants to revolutionize the country

  and to be freed from Spanish

  oppression.
• Don Anastacio - known by his Filipinized name Pilosopo

  Tasyo
• Educated inhabitants of San Diego labeled

  him as Filosofo Tacio (Tacio the Sage)

  while others called him as Tacio el Loco

  (Insane Tacio) due to his exceptional talent

  for reasoning.
• Commonly known as Doña Victorina, is

  an ambitious Filipina who classifies

  herself as a Spanish and mimics Spanish

  ladies by putting on heavy make up.
• Narcisa or Sisa is the deranged mother of

  Basilio and Crispín. Described as beautiful and

  young, although she loves her children very

  much, she can not protect them from the

  beatings of her husband, Pedro.
• Crispín is Sisa's 7-year-old son. An altar boy,

  he was unjustly accused of stealing money

  from the church. After failing to force Crispín

  to return the money he allegedly stole, Father

  Salví and the head sacristan killed him

  (Basilio’s dream)
• Basilio is Sisa's 10-year-old son.

  An acolyte tasked to ring the church

  bells for the Angelus, he faced the

  dread of losing his younger brother and

  the descent of his mother into insanity.

  At the end of the novel, Elías wished

  Basilio to bury him by burning in

  exchange of chest of gold located on

  his death ground.
• Padre Hernando de la Sibyla – a

  Dominican friar. He is described as

  short and has fair skin. He is instructed

  by an old priest in his order to watch

  Crisóstomo Ibarra.
• Padre Bernardo Salví – the Franciscan

  curate of San Diego, secretly harboring

  lust for María Clara. He is described to

  be very thin and sickly.
• Doña Consolacíon – wife of the Alférez,

  nicknamed as la musa de los guardias

  civiles (The muse of the Civil Guards) or la

  Alféreza, was a former laundrywoman

  who passes herself as a Peninsular; best

  remembered for her abusive treatment of

  Sisa.
• Don Tiburcio de Espadaña – Spanish

  Quack Doctor who is limp and submissive

  to his wife, Doña Victorina.
• Teniente Guevara - a close friend of

  Don Rafael Ibarra. He reveals to

  Crisóstomo how Don Rafael Ibarra's

  death came about.
• Alfonso Linares – A distant nephew of

  Tiburcio de Espadaña, that would be

  fiancé of María Clara. Although he

  presented himself as a practitioner of

  law, it was later revealed that he, just

  like Don Tiburcio, is a fraud. He later

  died due to given medications of Don

  Tiburcio.
• Tía Isabel - Capitán Tiago's cousin, who

  raised Maria Clara.
• Gobernador Heneral – Unnamed

  person in the novel, he is the most

  powerful official in the Philippines. He

  has great disdain for the friars and

  corrupt officials, and sympathizes with

  Ibarra.
• Don Filipo Lino – vice mayor of the

  town of San Diego, leader of the

  liberals.
• Don Rafael Ibarra - father of

  Crisóstomo Ibarra. Though he is the

  richest man in San Diego, he is also the

  most virtuous and generous.
• Doña Pía Alba - wife of Capitan Tiago

  and mother of María Clara, she died

  giving birth to her daughter. In reality,

  she was raped by Dámaso so she could

  bear a child.
• Don Saturnino Ibarra - the son of Don

  Pedro, father of Don Rafael and

  grandfather of Crisóstomo Ibarra. He was

  the one who developed the town of San

  Diego. He was described as a cruel man

  but was very clever.
• Salomé - Elías' sweetheart.
• Pedro – the abusive husband of Sisa

  who loves cockfighting.
• El hombre amarillo (apparently means

  "yellowish person", named as Taong

  Madilaw) - One of Crisostomo Ibarra's

  would-be assassins. He is not named in the

  novel, and only described as such. In the

  novel, he carved the cornerstone for

  Ibarra's school. Instead of killing Ibarra, he

  was killed by his cornerstone.
• Lucas - the brother of the taong madilaw.

  He planned a revolution against the

  government with Ibarra as the leader after

  he was turned down by Ibarra. He was said

  to have a scar on his left cheek. He would

  later be killed by the Sakristan Mayor.
• Bruno and Tarsilo – a pair of brothers

  whose father was killed by the

  Spaniards.
• Capitana Tika - Sinang's mother and

  wife of Capitan Basilio.
• Capitana María Elena - a nationalist

  woman who defends Ibarra of the

  memory of his father.