M. Lucio y Bustamante

Born in 1842 and deceased in 1893, Miguel Lucio y Bustamante is generally identified in library and public-domain records as Fray Miguel Lucio y Bustamante, a Spanish friar and author. He wrote in Tagalog, which places his work directly inside the literary and political life of the late Spanish colonial Philippines.

He is best known for Si Tandang Basio Macunat, published in 1885. The book became notable not simply as a story, but because of the ideas it presents: it argues against higher education for native Filipinos and reflects a strongly conservative colonial mindset, which is one reason it remains historically important.

Very little biographical detail appears to be easily confirmed in widely available sources beyond his dates, religious title, language of writing, and authorship of a small number of works. Even so, his surviving texts remain useful to readers interested in Philippine literary history, colonial-era debates, and the kind of writing that later generations would read critically rather than simply accept.