EL FILI

Simple green cloth cover with gold lettering

Original cover design of El Filibusterismo

Tabo

Steamship traveling on the Pasig River toward Laguna in December

mestizo, indio, and Chinese travelers

Passengers seated below deck with the luggage on the Tabo

Simoun

Wealthy jeweler with long white hair and blue-tinted sunglasses; revealed to be Crisostomo Ibarra

Ben Zayb

Writer who symbolizes colonial media bias, intellectual arrogance, and misinformation

Don Custodio

Influential Manila politician who symbolizes elites blocking progress

Padre Salvi, Padre Sibyla, Padre Irene, and Padre Camorra

Priests aboard the Tabo

Capitan Basilio

Father of Sinang who frequently buys jewelry from Simoun

Basilio

Medical student and physician of the opium-addicted Capitan Tiago

Isagani

Young idealistic poet

Makaraig

Wealthy law student and leader of the movement to establish a Spanish-language academy

Paulita Gomez

Doña Victorina's niece and Isagani's love interest

Padre Florentino

Retired priest and uncle of Isagani

Malapad-na-bato

Rock formation along the Pasig believed to house spirits but later became a bandits' hideout

Padre Florentino

Narrates the legend of Doña Jeronima

Doña Jeronima

Woman who waited for her betrothed until he became Archbishop and spent the rest of her life in a cave

Padre Salvi

Narrates the story of the Chinese infidel saved from the caymans by St. Nicholas

Ben Zayb

Asks where Ibarra was supposedly killed

13

Years since Ibarra's supposed death

Tandang Selo

Father of Cabesang Tales who later becomes mute

Cabesang Tales

Son of Tandang Selo who becomes the bandit Matanglawin after losing his land

Tano

Son of Cabesang Tales conscripted into military service

Juli

Daughter of Cabesang Tales and Basilio's sweetheart

Hermana Penchang

Woman from whom Juli borrows money and later serves

carromata

Vehicle whose unlighted lamp led Basilio's cochero to be beaten

balete tree

Tree standing in the forest formerly owned by the Ibarra family

Ibarra

Implied to be the mysterious stranger who met Basilio on Christmas Eve 13 years earlier

Simoun

Attempts to recruit Basilio into his revolutionary plans

Cabesang Tales

Person in whose house Simoun temporarily stays

revolver

Weapon stolen by Cabesang Tales from Simoun

friar administrator, new tenant, and the tenant's wife

Three people murdered by Cabesang Tales

Los Baños

Place where the Governor-General vacations with officials and friars

Tiani

Fictional town bordering San Diego

Padre Fernandez, Padre Irene, and Don Custodio

Officials who consider the Spanish academy proposal reasonable

Placido Penitente

UST student who wishes to withdraw from school

Silent suffering

Literal meaning of Placido Penitente's name

Padre Millon

Abusive UST professor who favors religious dogma over science

Juanito Pelaez

Teacher's pet and wealthy student who later becomes Paulita's fiancé

Don Timoteo Pelaez

Father of Juanito Pelaez

Señor Pasta

Lawyer whom Isagani asks to support the academy

Sandoval

Peninsular student who supports the academy and symbolizes the illusion of assimilation

Pecson

Pessimistic student who opposes the academy

Padre Irene

Friar who secures the creation of a commission under Don Custodio

Quiroga

Chinese businessman who stores rifles for Simoun and hopes to establish a Chinese consulate

Mr. Leeds

American performer at the Quiapo Fair

Padre Camorra

Friar who lusts after Paulita Gomez

Imuthis

Animated mummy in Mr. Leeds' show whose story parallels Ibarra's

Gaumata

Usurping ruler in Imuthis' story

Abydos

Young priest who coveted the woman loved by Imuthis

Cabesang Andang

Mother of Placido Penitente

Placido Penitente

Learns of Simoun's plan to rescue Maria Clara through revolution

Pepay

Ballerina and querida of Don Custodio

Teatro de Variedades

Theater featured in Chapter 21

Les Cloches de Corneville

Play performed at the Teatro de Variedades

Camaroncocido

"Boiled Shrimp"; Spaniard who overhears Simoun's plans but remains indifferent

Tio Kiko (Uncle Quico)

Friend of Camaroncocido

Tadeo

Student known for inventing stories about strangers

Juanito Pelaez

Pretends to know French to impress Paulita Gomez

Padre Irene

Friar who secretly watches the play

Basilio

Threatened by Simoun to help rescue Maria Clara

Malecon

Meeting place of Isagani and Paulita Gomez

Tiani

Isagani's fictional hometown in Laguna

Panciteria

Restaurant where the students sarcastically celebrate the academy's rejection

soup bones

Dish dedicated to Don Custodio

lumpia

Dish dedicated to Padre Irene

crab omelette (torta)

Dish dedicated to the friars

pancit lang-lang

Dish eaten by the fourteen students

Panciteria Macanista de Buen Gusto

Real panciteria on San Fernando Street, Binondo

Dominican Order

Religious order assigned to supervise the academy

Sandoval

Ignores Basilio when called

Tadeo

Happy only because classes are suspended

Juanito Pelaez

Denounces his involvement with the student movement

Isagani

Scolds students for abandoning their cause out of fear

Padre Fernandez

Friar who debates with Isagani

Chapter 28

Chapter in which Capitan Tiago dies and Padre Irene executes his will

Padre Camorra

Attempts to rape Juli, causing her to leap from the convent window

pasquinades

Subversive posters criticizing the government

Pecson, Tadeo, and Juanito Pelaez

Three students suspended

Makaraig

Student who leaves for Europe

9:00 PM

Time Simoun plans to detonate the pomegranate-shaped lamp

Calle Anloague

Street where Juanito and Paulita's wedding is held

Mane Thecel Phares Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

Message written on the note circulated during the wedding

Isagani

Throws the explosive lamp into the river

Chichoy

Jeweler who discovers the hidden gunpowder and suspects Simoun

Momoy

Fiancé of Sensia Orenda

Carolino

Formerly Tano; shoots his grandfather Tandang Selo while serving in the Guardia Civil

Padre Florentino

Receives Simoun's confession and throws his treasures into the sea, declaring that true freedom comes through education, work, and suffering rather than violence