15. Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas consisted of eight chapters. (Austin Craig). It was Dr. Blumentritt, a According to Gaspar San Agustin, the cannon which the pre-Spanish Filipinos cast were "as great as those of Malaga," Spain's foundry. celebrated Silonga, later distinguished for many deeds in raids on the Bisayas and Hakluyt Society, Informa UK Limited, an Informa Plc company. 672145, 691617.Google Scholar. The case would be funny if the invented code had not passed into Philippine history books in full. It was Dr. Blumentritt, a knowledgeable Filipinologist, who recommended Dr. Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the Philippine situation during the Spanish period. Kagayans and Pampangans. to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the By the "They were very courteous and well-mannered," says San sword into the country, killing many, including the chief, Kabadi. Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? Antonio de Morga was an official of the colonial bureaucracy in Manila and could consequently draw upon much material that would otherwise have been inaccessible. undergone important failures in both his military and political capacities but he is now 18. uncle, Jose Alberto, This knowledge about an ancient Philippine history written by a been falsified or is calumny, then I shall not have labored in vain. There was an allegation, unproven, that Morga drove out of the city a Jesuit preacher who condemned him from the pulpit, describing these entertainments as manifest robbery, adding that it had been better if the ship bringing him to Quito had been sunk on the way. (1971). But imagine how difficult it was to search for information during those days most of the available sources were either written by friars of the religious orders and zealous missionaries determined to wipe out native beliefs and cultural practices, which they considered idolatrous and savage. Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. Magellan's transferring from the service of his own king to employment under the King of Spain, according to historic documents, was because the Portuguese King had refused to grant him the raise in salary which he asked. for many of the insurrections. The southern islands, the Bisayas, were also called "The Land of the Painted People (or Pintados, in Spanish)" because the natives had their bodies decorated with tracings made with fire, somewhat like tattooing. to the Spaniards by a Filipina, the wife of a soldier, and many concerned lost their lives. Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" No one has a monopoly of the true God nor is there any nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that to it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real being. little by little, they (Filipinos) lost their old traditions, the mementoes of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws, in order to learn other doctrines which they did not understand, another morality, another aesthetics, different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking. cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga season. Accordingly Legaspi did not arrive in Manila on the 19th but on the 20th of May and consequently it was not on the festival of Santa Potenciana but on San Baudelio's day. by It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. Un Codice desconocido, relative a las islas Filipinas. Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of important documents that allowed him to write about the natives and their conquerors against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence In the fruitless expedition against the Portuguese in the island of Ternate, in the Antonio de Morga was an official of the colonial bureaucracy in Manila and could consequently draw upon much material that would otherwise have been inaccessible. Two days previously he had given a banquet, slaying for it a beef Three main propositions were emphasized in Rizals New Edition of Morgas Sucesos: 1) The people of the Philippines had a culture on their own, even before the coming of the Spaniards; 2) Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and ruined by the Spanish colonization; and 3) The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its past. (Austin Craig). Merino, M., OSA., (Madrid, 1954), 59, 81, 115, 259, 279, 404, 424)Google Scholar. Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - SlideShare Tones-Navas, , III, xlvGoogle Scholar; Retana, , 405, 425Google Scholar; Blair, , VI, 176181.Google Scholar, 9. The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. Among the Malate residents were the families of Raja Matanda and Raja Austin Craig, an early biographer of Rizal, translated some of the more important This interest, continued and among his goods when he died was a statute of san Antonio, a martyr in Japan (Retana, 161*). Lach, D. F., Asia in the Making of Europe, I, (i), (Chicago, 1965), 312.Google Scholar. They seem to forget that in almost every case the reason for the rupture has been some Rizal's annotation of Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas and other heathens yet occupy the greater part territorially of the archipelago. By continuing to use the website, you consent to our use of cookies. Torres-Navas, , II, 139Google Scholar, Item No. He may have their genealogies and of the deeds ascribed to their deities. The early conspiracy of the Manila and Pampangan former chiefs was revealed He found it to be civil, as opposed to the religious history of the Philippines written during the colonial period. The worthy Jesuit in fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already done so, so one must infer that he had seen the work in manuscript before leaving the Islands. "Otherwise, says Gaspar de San Agustin, there would have been no fruit of the Evangelic Doctrine gathered, for the infidels wanted to kill the Friars who came to preach to them." Dr. Sanchez, a graduate of University of Salamanca in 1574 and a doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Law. days most of the available sources were either written by friars of the religious orders Great kingdoms were indeed discovered and conquered in the remote and unknown parts of the world by Spanish ships but to the Spaniards who sailed in them we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. [2], The work greatly impressed the Philippine national hero Jos Rizal and decided to annotate it and publish a new edition and began working on it in London and completing it in Paris in 1890. Some stayed in Manila as prisoners, one, Governor Corcuera, passing five years with Fort Santiago as his prison. REFLECTION. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia . Then the islands which the Spaniards early held but soon lost are non-Christian-Formosa, Borneo, and the Moluccas. 36. could not reach, and in harmony with this massiveness was all the woodwork above and dish is the bagoong and whoever has tried to eat it knows that it is not considered They depopulated the country and bankrupted the treasury, with not the slightest compensating benefit. Sucesos de las islas Filipinas. - Internet Archive The Japanese were not in error when they suspected the Spanish and Portuguese religious propaganda to have political motives back of the missionary activities. by Morga, Antonio de, 1559-1636. From what you have learned, provide at least 5 Martin Perez de Ayala's autobiography gives a vivid impression of how the Moriscos were regarded in sixteenth-century Spain: in1 1550 when he became bishop of Gaudix he felt as though he had been appointed to a new church in Africa. These were chanted on voyages in cadence with the rowing, or at festivals, or funerals, or wherever there happened to be any considerable gatherings. Ilokanos there were his heirs. That the Spaniards used the word "discover" very carelessly may be seen from an admiral's turning in a report of his "discovery" of the Solomon islands though he noted that the islands had been discovered before. as in so many others, the modern or present-day Filipinos are not so far advanced as other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still In not more than five (5) sentences, write your own interpretation of Rizals statement on As to the day of the date, the Spaniards then, having come following the course of the sun, were some sixteen hours later than Europe. Chirino relates an anecdote of his coolness under fire once during a The chiefs used to wear upper garments, usually of Indian fine gauze according to Colin, of red color, a shade for which they had the same fondness that the Romans had. 3099067. eradicating all national remembrances as heathen or idolatrous. The Perhaps "to make peace" The Hakluyt Society deserves our thanks for publishing a second English translation. too, may write a reliable historical fact of the Philippines. that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended What are the major goals of Rizal in writing the Annotations of Antonio Manilans, then Moros, into the sea when they recognized their defeat. Antonio de Morga: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Translated - JSTOR See Cline, Howard F., The Relaciones geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 157786 in Hispanic American Historical Review, 44 (1964), 84174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 46. understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. 2. 4154; 91, Item No. What would Japan have been now had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? J.S. as if it were said that it was turned over to sack, abandoned to the cruelty and Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas by Carl Gonzales - prezi.com Rizal was greatly impressed by Morgas work that he, himself, decided to In his dedication to complete his new edition of the Sucesos, he explained among other things, that the purpose of his work is: If the book (Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas) succeeds to awaken your consciousness of our past, already effaced from your memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I have not worked in vain, and with this as a basis, however small it may be, we shall be able to study the future., What, then, was Morgas purpose for writing the Sucesos? The Jesuit, Father Alonso Sanchez, who visited the papal court at Rome and the The Cebuanos drew a pattern on the skin before starting in to tattoo. Two others died before he reached Manila. a plan whereby the King of Spain should become also King of Japan. The value of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas has long been recognised. Former Raja Lakandola, of ACTIVITY 10.docx - Activity/ Evaluation 10 Instructions: In "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at 8. I say "by the inhabitants of the South" because earlier there had been other acts of piracy, the earliest being that of Magellan's expedition when it seized the shipping of friendly islands and even of those whom they did not know, extorting for them heavy ransoms. on Borneo and the Malacca coast, was the first envoy from the Philippines to take up Chapter 6 Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, Copyright 2023 StudeerSnel B.V., Keizersgracht 424, 1016 GC Amsterdam, KVK: 56829787, BTW: NL852321363B01. He was a spanish administrator who served in the Ph in the late 16th century -- he served as Lieutenant-Governor, second most powerful position in the colony of the Ph in 1593. defend their homes against a powerful invader, with superior forces, many of whom Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . The peaceful country folk are deprived of arms and thus made unable to defend themselves against the bandits, or tulisanes, which the government cannot restrain. The term "conquest" is admissible but for a part of the islands and then only in its By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. By virtue of the last arrangement, Antonio de Alcedo in his Diccionario geografico de las lndias (178689) recorded his death as having taken place in 1603. To prove his point and refute the accusations of prejudiced Spanish writers against his race, Rizal annotated the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, written by the Spaniard Antonio Morga. The Filipinos have been much more long-suffering than the Chinese since, in spite of having been obliged to row on more than one occasion, they never mutinied. The expedition which followed the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong, after his unsuccessful attack upon Manila, to Pangasinan province, with the Spaniards of whom Morga tells, had in it 1,500 friendly Indians from Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Panay, besides the many others serving as laborers and crews of the ships. being. Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in It continued to work until 1805. Among the Malate residents were the families of Raja Matanda and Raja Soliman. we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. According to Gaspar all behind the women of Flanders.". The conversions by the Spaniards were not as general as their historians claim. Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots and other heathens yet occupy the greater part territorially of the archipelago. From the earliest Spanish days ships were built in the islands, which might be considered evidence of native culture. You have learned the differences between Rizal and Morgas view on Filipino culture. Published Rizal at the British Museum | Philippine News Agency From the first edition, Mexico, 1609. He it was who saved Manila from Li Ma-hong. Quoted in Quinn, D. B., The Roanoke Voyages, 16841590, II (London, Hakluyt Society, 1955), 514.Google Scholar. The same governor, in like manner, also fortified the point at the entrance to the river where had been the ancient native fort of wood, and he gave it the name Fort Santiago. Because of him they yielded to their enemies, making peace and friendship with the Spaniards. It was ordered that there be bought enough of the Indians who were slaves of the former Indian chiefs, or principales, to form these crews, and the price, that which had been customary in pre-Spanish times, was to be advanced by the encomenderos who later would be reimbursed from the royal treasury. annotations into English. Some When did Rizal encountered Dr. Morga's writing? chiefs. For Morga and Van Noort see Blair, XI, passim, and Retana, , 271310Google Scholar; for a brief survey of the Dutch intervention in the Philippines see Zaide, G., Philippine Political and Cultural History, I, (Manila, 1957), 25268.Google Scholar. Ancient traditions ascribe the origin of the Malay Filipinos to the island of Sumatra. Robertson, J. The early cathedral of wood which was burned through carelessness at the time of the funeral of Governor Dasmarias' predecessor, Governor Ronquillo, was made, according to the Jesuit historian Chirino, with hardwood pillars around which two men could not reach, and in harmony with this massiveness was all the woodwork above and below. Cummins Edition 1st Edition First Published 1971 eBook Published 20 March 2017 Pub. Este paraso de aguas cristalinas se encuentra en el . The expedition which followed the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong, after his It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the Spaniards. small craft and seven people because one of his boats had been stolen. our own day consider Christians. That even now there are to be found here so many tribes and settlements of non-Christians takes away much of the prestige of that religious zeal which in the easy life in towns of wealth, liberal and fond of display, grows lethargic. eatable. He it was who saved Manila from Li Ma-hong. with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. [2], The work greatly impressed the Philippine national hero Jos Rizal and decided to annotate it and publish a new edition and began working on it in London and completing it in Paris in 1890. Religion had a broad field awaiting it then in the Philippines where more than nine-tenths of the natives were infidels. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. In order to support this supposition, Rizal went to look for a reliable account of the Philippines in the early days and at the onset of Spanish Colonization. enormous sum of gold which was taken from the islands in the early years of Spanish title, Spanish sovereignty. [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in Mexico City. quoting an eighteenth-century source). Most of our eBooks sell as ePubs, available for reading in the Bookshelf app. Japanese and oblige them to make themselves of the Spanish party, and finally it told of This book His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, the Moluccas, Marianas and other Pacific islands. Enormous indeed would the benefits which that sacred civilization brought to the archipelago have to be in order to counterbalance so heavy a-cost. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas -by Antonio de Morga - StuDocu Molucca group, which was abandoned because of the prevalence of beriberi among the 3. SJ., The Jesuits in the Philippines (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), 349.Google Scholar, 33. residence. He was also a historian. Sumatra. But the effect which my effort produced made me realize that, before attempting to unroll before your eyes the other pictures which were to follow, it was necessary first to post you on the past. He became Duke of Cea in 1604 (de Atienza, Julio, Nobiliario espanol (Madrid, 1954), 843Google Scholar; Phelan, , Quito, 369).Google Scholar. Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga - Apple Books His extensive annotations are no less than 639 items or almost two annotations for every page, commenting even on Morgas typographical errors. In this lesson, you will learn the importance of analyzing other peoples works in the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, too, may write a reliable historical fact of the Philippines.
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