Segunda Katigbak, Rizal’s first love.

Leonor Rivera, childhood sweetheart, first cousin and “lover by correspondence” of Rizal.

Leonor Valenzuela, Rizal’s next-door neighbor. They exchanged letters using invisible ink.

Gertrude Beckett, the daughter of Rizal’s landlord in London.

Nellie Boustead, the woman Rizal courted after he learned of Rivera’s marriage.

O-Sei-San, the woman Rizal met while he was in Japan.

Suzanne Jacoby, who Rizal fondly calls “Petite Suzanne”.

Josephine Bracken, the “Sweet Foreigner”.

Photos first published in Lolo Jose: An Intimate and Illustrated Portrait of Jose Rizal (Vibal Foundation, 2008)