Florante at Laura
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Florante at Laura[lower-alpha 1] is an 1838 awit written by Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas. The story was dedicated to his former sweetheart María Asunción Rivera, whom he nicknamed "M.A.R." and Selya in Kay Selya ("For Celia").[2][3][4]
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Author | Francisco Balagtas |
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Country | Captaincy General of the Philippines |
Language | Tagalog |
Genre | Fiction, epic poetry |
Set in | Albania |
Published | 1838/1853[1] |
ISBN | 978-1-78435-092-5 |
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The story is loosely based on Balagtas' own biography. He wrote the epic during his imprisonment in Manila in c. 1835 – c. 1836.[5]