1. The title Noli Me Tangere is a
Latin phrase which means
“Touch Me Not.”

2.  Rizal dedicated his Noli Me Tangere to the Philippines
– “To My Fatherland.” His dedication run as follows:
Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a
cancer so malignant a character that the least touch
irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains. Thus,
how many times, when in the midst of modern
civilizations I have wished to call thee before me, now
to accompany me in memories, now to compare thee
with other countries, hath thy dear image presented
itself showing a social cancer like to that other!

3. Desiring thy welfare which is our own, and
seeking the best treatment, I will do with thee what
the ancients did with their sick, exposing them on the
steps of the temple so that every one who came to
invoke the Divinity might offer them a remedy.
And to this end, I will strive to reproduce thy
condition faithfully, without discriminations; I will
raise a part of the veil that covers the evil, sacrificing to
truth everything, even vanity itself, since, as thy son I
am conscious that I also suffer from thy defects and
weaknesses.

4. The novel Noli Me Tangere
contains 63 chapters and an
epilogue.

5. Major Characters Other characters
 Juan Crisostomo  Padre Hernando de la
 María Clara Sibyla
 Capitán Tiago  Padre Bernardo Salví
 Padre Dámaso  El Alférez or Alperes
 Elías  Doña Consolacíon
 Filosofo Tacio  Don Tiburcio de
 Doña Victorina Espadaña –
 Sisa, Crispín, and  Teniente Guevara
Basilio  Alfonso Linares

6. Non-recurring
characters
 Tía Isabel  Don Pedro
 Governor General Eibarramendia
 Don Filipo Lino  Don Saturnino Ibarra
 Padre Manuel  Salomé
Martín  Sinang
 Don Rafael Ibarra  Iday,
Neneng and Victoria
 Dona Pía Alba
 Capitán Basilio

7.  Pedro
 Tandáng Pablo
 El hombre amarillo
 Lucas
 Bruno and Tarsilo
 Ñor Juan
 Capitana Tika (Rustica)
 Albino
 Capitana María Elena
 Hermano Pedro, Hermana Rufa, Hermana Sipa,
Hermana Juana
 Sacristán Mayor
 Capitán Tinong and Capitán Valentín

8.  The Noli Me Tangere, unlike many works of
fictional literarture, was a true story of
Philippine conditions during the last
dacades of Spanish rule. The places, the
characters, and the situations really existed.
“The facts I narrate there,” said Rizal, “are all
true and have happened; I can prove them.”

9. Missing Chapter of
the Noli
Rizal’s Friends
Praise the Noli