Gaspar Aquino de Belén
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Gaspar Aquino de Belén, a native of Rosario, Batangas,[1] was a Filipino poet and translator of the 17th century, known for authoring a 1704 rendition of the Pasyon: a famous work of Christian poetry about the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, which has circulated in many versions.
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Generally Filipino natives were not taught the Spanish language but the bilingual individuals, notably poet-translator Aquino de Belén, produced devotional poetry written in Latin script in the Tagalog language.
References
- ^ Lumbera, Bienvenido L. (1968). "Assimilation and Synthesis (1700-1800): Tagalog Poetry in the Eighteenth Century". Philippine Studies. 16 (4): 622–662. ISSN 0031-7837.
External links
Media related to Gaspar Aquino de Belén at Wikimedia Commons
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080302162119/http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=139
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