![]() ![]() įrom there, we are introduced to the subject’s student days at the Ateneo where he excelled academically, graduating Suma Cum Laude together with Horacio de la Costa and Jess Paredes. Guerrero and Manuel Guerrero the scientist and discoverer of both the Beri-Beri disease as well as the remedy for it, the Tiki-Tiki. Guerero, the first Filipino botanist Lorenzo Guerrero, the famed artist and one time teacher of Juan Luna the highly acclaimed poet Fernando Ma. The book opens with a brief summary of Ambassador Guerrero’s family tree beginning the mid 19th century, a family described by historian/writer Nick Joaquin as “a mixture, a very uneasy blend, of religious conservatism and intellectual radicalism.” “On the one hand, they uphold tradition on the other, they sponsor revolution.” LMG’s immediate forebears include, among others, Dr. ![]() The Leon Maria Guerrero Anthology authored by his only son, David Guerrero, is a must read for anyone that wishes to serve in our Foreign Service, or wishes to become a writer, or simply wants to know about a nationalist of the top order that lived through the country’s transition from colony, to occupied, to independence from foreign domination or at least, a semblance of it. ![]()
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