GOOGLE on Monday celebrated the 230th birthday of Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar with a doodle of his literary masterpiece entitled "Florante at Laura."

An epic poem that symbolizes Baltazar’s own life journey, “Florante at Laura” was written in dodecasyllabic quatrains, which means it has 12 syllables per line, 4 line per stanza, according to Google.

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