National Artist Virgilio Almario, also known as Rio Alma, gave a major lecture on a seldom-visited period in Philippine literary history on March 7 at Teresita Quirino Theater, University of Santo Tomas (UST).

Titled Ang Panitikan Para sa Kalayaan: 1838-1903 (The Literature of Liberation: 1838-1903), Almario described his lecture as a sweeping survey of 19th-century popular literature in Tagalog.

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