Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera Ignacio (February 27, 1857 – April 26, 1911) was a Filipino politician infamous for being a turncoat. He was also a poet and a novelist. His intervention on behalf of the Spanish led to the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato on December 14, 1897, an account of which he published in 1910. Wikipedia