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LEONA FLORENTINO<\/p>\n

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 \u201cEXPOSICION GENERAL DE FILIPINAS,\u201d MADRID, 1887 AND IN THE \u201cEXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE,\u201d PARIS, 1889. HER NAME WITH A LIST OF SOME OF HER WORKS APPEARED IN THE \u201cBIBLIOTHEQUE INTERNATIONALE DES OUVERES DES FEMMES\u201d EDITED BY MADAME ANDZIA WOLKSKA, 1889. 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