Bernardo

Carpio : Awit
and Revolution
Reynaldo Ileto
King Alfonso children of King and
Jimena Queen in Spain

Don Sancho- royal counselor and commanding

general of the army

Bernardo Carpio son of Jimena and Don

Sancho who has an extraordinary strength and
energy
Don Rubio Don Sanchos friend and captain
of the army

Emperor Carpio the most formidable enemy

and was defeated by Bernardo
French Prince, Bernardo rules the kingdom
while King Alfonso was away for haunting

Emperor Ludovico is the one who explain to

Bernardo Carpio that the relation with Spain
are based on age old covenants
The formal reunion of Bernardos family

Idolaters to destroy

The awit ends with the remark that since

Bernardo was such a great and powerful
hero, God cast a spell on him and thus kept
him alive through hidden.
The study of Revolution in two
respects :
1. Appropriation by the Tagalogs of Spanish hero
enabled a people without a history of themselves as a
people to imagine a lost past as well as their hopes of
liberation from Spanish rule.

2. The awit reveals a form of meaningfully structuring

events, which would later be used by nationalists to
communicate their political ideas to the people.
The first point is borne out by evidence from local
histories of central and southern Tagalog towns.

The second point, aspects of awit and the

nationalist writings.
Hermenegildo Flores authored Hibik ng Filipinas sa
Ynang Espaa that was being secretly distributed in
the country.

The execution of the three priests

Marcelo del Pilar authored Sagot ng Espaa sa Hibik

nang Filipinas , a sequel to Flores' Hibik

Andres Bonifacio founder of Kataastaasan

Kagalanggalang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan
(KKK)
The revision of Historia by Bonifacio

King Alfonso Spain

Don Sancho and Jimena mother and father
katagalugan (to be called Filipinas)
Don Rubio friars
Bernardo Carpio youth of the land
The mountain was Montalban ( to become a refuge of
the Katipunan)

The time has come for the Tagalogs to know the

origins of their hardships.

Pag ibig sa Tinubuang Bayan

Katapusang Hibik ng Pilipinas
Rizal and the
Underside of
Philippine
History
Reynaldo Ileto