Executed Writers - Cicero, Thomas More, Walter Raleigh, Giordano Bruno, Federico Garcia Lorca, James Connolly, Jose Rizal, Isaak Babel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 90. Chapters: Cicero, Thomas More, Walter Raleigh, Giordano Bruno, Federico Garcia Lorca, James Connolly, Jose Rizal, Isaak Babel, Patrick Pearse, Robert Brasillach, Robert Southwell, Olympe de Gouges, Chidiock Tichborne, Andre Chenier, Nikolay Gumilev, Edmund Campion, Julius Fu ik, Mile Budak, Vladislav Van ura, Thomas MacDonagh, Tias Mortigjija, Fabre d'Eglantine, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Itzik Feffer, Evagoras Pallikarides, Maurice Halbwachs, Mirjaqip Dulatuli, Jacques Fesch, Ivan Goran Kova i, Nef'i, August Cesarec, Diego de Enzinas, Bekir Coban-zade, Michalis Karaolis, Pedro Munoz Seca, Domingo Lopez Torres, Ahmad Javad, Mihovil Pavlek Mi kina, Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov. Excerpt: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896, Bagumbayan), was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by National Heroes Committee. His execution by the Spanish in 1896, a date marked annually as Rizal Day, a Philippine national holiday, was one of the causes of the Philippine Revolution. Rizal was born to a rich family in Calamba, Laguna and was the seventh of eleven children. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts, and enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas. He continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He also attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in twenty-two languages. He was a prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and E...