Early Life and Education
Isabelo de los Reyes was born to Elias de los Reyes and Leona Florentino in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. His mother, of Spanish and Filipina descent, was recognized as the first woman poet of the Philippines. She wrote in both Spanish and Ilocano.
Due to their troubled marriage, Elias entrusted his 6-year-old son Isabelo to the care of Don Meno Crisologo, a wealthy relative. He was also writer in the vernacular. The boy was enrolled in a grammar school attached to the local seminary run by Augustinians; their harsh discipline made him a critic of the friars all his life. In 1880 at age 16, de los Reyes went to Manila, where he finished the Bachiller en Artes at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. After that, he studied law, history and palaeography at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.
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