Leona Florentino

NHCP Photo Collection, 2018

Location: Vigan, Ilocos Sur

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1958

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

LEONA FLORENTINO

FOREMOST ILOCANO POETESS, SUBTLE SATIRIST AND PLAYWRIGHT. BORN IN VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR 19 APRIL 1849. DAUGHTER OF MARCELINO FLORENTINO AND ISABEL FLORENTINO MOTHER OF THE LATE ISABELO DE LOS REYES. DISTANT COUSIN OF RIZAL. A POET AT THE AGE OF TEN. HER WORKS IN SPANISH AND ILOCANO WERE LATER EXHIBITED IN THE “EXPOSICION GENERAL DE FILIPINAS,” MADRID, 1887 AND IN THE “EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE,” PARIS, 1889. HER NAME WITH A LIST OF SOME OF HER WORKS APPEARED IN THE “BIBLIOTHEQUE INTERNATIONALE DES OUVERES DES FEMMES” EDITED BY MADAME ANDZIA WOLKSKA, 1889. DIED 4 OCTOBER 1884.