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    Antonio de Morga wrote "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" in 1609, which provided a history of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. José Rizal took interest in this book and made an annotated edition of it in 1890. Rizal's 639 annotations aimed to show that pre-Spanish Philippines had its own advanced culture and that Spanish rule negatively impacted and exploited the country. His edition argued for Filipino cultural achievements prior to conquest and criticized Spanish accounts.

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    Antonio de Morga wrote "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" in 1609, which provided a history of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. José Rizal took interest in this book and made an annotated edition of it in 1890. Rizal's 639 annotations aimed to show that pre-Spanish Philippines had its own advanced culture and that Spanish rule negatively impacted and exploited the country. His edition argued for Filipino cultural achievements prior to conquest and criticized Spanish accounts.

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    Antonio de Morga wrote "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" in 1609, which provided a history of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. José Rizal took interest in this book and made an annotated edition of it in 1890. Rizal's 639 annotations aimed to show that pre-Spanish Philippines had its own advanced culture and that Spanish rule negatively impacted and exploited the country. His edition argued for Filipino cultural achievements prior to conquest and criticized Spanish accounts.

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    SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

    “THE HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINE


    ISLANDS”

    OF: ANTONIO MORGA


    Vocabulary building
    • Annotation-
    • Chronicle-
    • Audiencia-
    • Conquest-
    • Antonio de Morga
    Sánchez Garay (1559 –
    July 21, 1636) was a
    Spanish lawyer and a
    high-ranking colonial
    official for 43 years, in
    the Philippines (1594 to
    1604), New Spain and
    Peru, where he was
    president of the
    Audiencia for 20 years.
    • His history is valuable in that Morga had access
    to the survivors of the earliest days of the colony
    and he, himself, participated in many of thee
    accounts that he rendered
    • In 1609, he published the work for which he is
    now remembered – Sucesos de las Islas
    Filipinas . This work, perhaps the best account
    of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines written
    during that period, is based partly on
    documentary research, partly on keen
    observation, and partly on Morga's personal
    involvement and knowledge.
    • The book narrates the history of wars,
    intrigues, diplomacy and evangelization of
    the Philippines in a somewhat disjointed
    way. Modern historians have noted that
    Morga has a definite bias and would often
    distort facts or even rely on invention to fit
    his defense of Spanish conquest
    Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas is composed
    of eight chapters:
    • The first is on Magellan’s and Legazpi’s seminal
    expeditions,
    • The second to seventh is a chronological report
    on the government administration under several
    Governor-Generals
    • The final eighth provides a general “account of
    the Philippines Islands, the natives there, their
    antiquity, customs, and government, both in the
    time of their paganism and after their conquest
    by the Spaniards; and other particulars.”
    •WHAT IS THE
    INVOLVEMENT OF
    RIZAL IN THIS
    BOOK?
    • As a child José Rizal heard from his
    uncle, José Alberto, about a ancient
    history of the Philippines written by a
    Spaniard named Antonio de Morga.
    The knowledge of this book came
    from the English Governor of Hong
    Kong, Sir John Browning, who had
    once paid his uncle a visit.
    • While in London, Rizal immediately
    acquainted himself with the British
    Museum where he found one of the few
    remaining copies of that work. He hand-
    copied the work. At his own expense, he
    had the work republished with
    annotations that showed the Philippines
    was an advanced civilization prior to the
    Spanish conquest.
    • Rizal has a theory that the country was
    economically self-sufficient and
    prosperous.
    • He also believed the conquest of the
    Spaniards contributed in part to the
    decline of Philippines’ rich tradition and
    culture
    • He then decided to undertake the
    annotation of Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos
    De Las Islas Filipinas
    • His personal friendship with Ferdinand
    Blumentritt provided the inspiration for
    doing a new edition of Morga’s Sucesos
    • Devoting four months of research and
    writing and almost a year to get his
    manuscript published in Paris in January
    1890
    Rizal’s annotation of Morga’s Sucesos
    • His extensive annotations are no less then
    639 items and about two annotations per
    page.
    • He also annotated Morga’s typographical
    errors
    • He commented on every statement that
    could be nuance in Filipino cultural
    practices. For example: “they prefer to eat
    salt fish that began to decompose and
    smell”
    • Rizal annotated: this is another pre-
    occupation of spaniards who, like any
    other nation in that matter of food,
    loathe that to which they are not
    accustomed or is known to them. The
    fish that Morga mentions does not
    taste better when it is beginning to
    rot: all on the contrary it is bagoong
    and all those who have eaten it and
    tested it know it is now or ought to be
    rotten
    • Now it is known that Magellan was mistaken
    when he represented to the King of Spain that
    the Molucca Islands were within the limits
    assigned by the Pope to the Spaniards. But
    through this error and the inaccuracy of the
    nautical instruments of that time, the
    Philippines did not fall into the hands of the
    Portuguese.
    • Cebu, which Morga calls "The City of the Most
    Holy Name of Jesus," was at first called "The
    village of San Miguel."
    • Of the native Manila rulers at the coming of the
    Spaniards, Raja Soliman was called "Rahang
    mura", or young king, in distinction from the old
    king, "Rahang matanda". Historians have
    confused these personages.
    • The native fort at the mouth of the Pasig river,
    which Morga speaks of as equipped with brass
    lantkas and artillery of larger caliber, had its
    ramparts reinforced with thick hardwood posts
    such as the Tagalogs used for their houses and
    called "harigues", or "haligui".
    BLUMENTRITT’S PROLOGUE
    • Writing in Spanish instead of his native
    German Language
    • Praised Rizal’s work as “scholarly and
    well-thought out”
    • He criticized Rizal’s annotation:
    Rizal’s annotation of Morga’s Sucesos

    • Rizal commits error of many historians in


    appraising the events of the past in the light of
    present standards
    • Rizal’s attacks on the church were unfair and
    unjustified because of abuses of the friars should
    not be construed to mean the Catholicism is bad
    3 MAIN PROPOSITIONS IN RIZAL’S NEW
    EDITION OF MORGA’S SUCESOS
    • 1. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES HAD
    CULTURE ON THEIR OWN, BEFOREE THE
    COMING OF THE SPANIARDS
    2. FILIPINOS WERE DECIMATED,
    DEMORALIZED, EXPLOITED AND RUINED BY
    THE SPANIARDS
    3. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PHILIPPINES
    WAS NOT NECESSARILY SUPERIOR TO ITS
    PAST
    RIZAL ANNOTATION
    • To the filipinos: “In my NOLI ME TANGERE, I
    commenced to sketch the present conditions
    obtaining in our country. The effect produced by
    my efforts gave me to understand-before
    proceeding to develop before your eyes other
    successive scenes-that is necessary to fist lay
    bare the past to judge better the present and to
    survey the road trodden during 3 centuries”

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