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Emilio Jacinto

1875–1899 · 19th century

Emilio Jacinto was a Filipino revolutionary and the leading intellectual of the Katipunan, the secret society that launched the revolution against Spain in 1896. A close aide of Andrés Bonifacio, he wrote the Kartilya ng Katipunan, the society's code of conduct, and edited its newspaper Kalayaan. He fought in Laguna after Bonifacio's death and died of malaria in 1899.

Emilio Jacinto
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