“Epifanio de los Santos, greatest connoisseur of Filipiniana, foremost Filipino historian and biographer, and the first Filipino to become member of the Spanish Academy of Letters.”

— Epifanio de los Santos

Esteban de Ocampo's eulogy ( Former Head, Department History, U.B.).
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