The Spaniards, says Morga, were accustomed to hold as slaves such natives as The following are excerpts from Rizal's annotations to inspire young Filipinos of today (Taken from Craig, 1929 as translated by Derbyshire, n.d. in kahimyang.com). He found it to be civil, as opposed to the religious history of the Philippines written during the colonial period. When the English freebooter Cavendish captured the Mexican galleon Santa Annotation of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Religion had a broad field awaiting it then in the Philippines where more than nine-tenths of the natives were infidels. From the earliest Spanish days ships were built in the islands, which might be considered evidence of native culture. remembered for his work as a historian. Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. by It will be remembered that these Moro piracies continued for more than two centuries, during which the indomitable sons of the South made captives and carried fire and sword not only in neighboring islands but into Manila Bay to Malate, to the very gates of the capital, and not once a year merely but at times repeating their raids five and six times in a single season. Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas Contextual Analysis Consequently, in this respect, the pacifiers introduced no moral improvement. by Morga, Antonio de, 1559-1636. Other than Rizal, who made annotations of Morga's book? blood. Year of publication of annotation of Morga's book. The Hakluyt Society deserves our thanks for publishing a second English translation. means, cheating by the weights and measures. The leaders bore themselves bravely for Argensola writes that in the assault on Ternate, "No officer, Spaniard or Indian, went unscathed.". For the rest, today the Philippines has no reason to blush in comparing its womankind with the women of the most chaste nation in the world. Sucesos de las islas filipinas - Duke University Press The men had various positions in Manila and some were employed in government work near by. 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. If discovery and occupation justify annexation, then Borneo ought to belong to Spanish King at Madrid, had a mission much like that of deputies now, but of even Young Spaniards out of bravado An A new edition of First Series 39. Of the government of Dr. Santiago de Vera 5. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas by Carl Gonzales - prezi.com The masters treated these, and loved them, like sons rather, for they seated them at their own tables an gave them their own daughters in marriage. 1. Morga tells, had in it 1,500 friendly Indians from Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Panay, besides 18. Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the vessels that carried from the Philippines wealth which encomenderos had extorted from the Filipinos, using force, or making their own laws, and, when not using these open means, cheating by the weights and measures. The Filipino chiefs who at their own expense went with the Spanish expedition against Ternate, in the Moluccas, in 1605, were Don Guillermo Palaot, Maestro de Campo, and Captains Francisco Palaot, Juan Lit, Luis Lont, and Agustin Lont. colonialism in the country. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia . MS Filipinas 340, lib. In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. truce for a marriage among Mindanao "principalia." Father Chirino's work, printed at Rome in Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. [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. Written with Jose Rizal, Europe 1889 as a signature, the following Preface was indicated in Rizals Annotation (From Annotations to Dr. Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, n.d., as translated in English): To the Filipinos: In Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) I started to sketch the present state of our native land. in rizal's introduction, Blumentritt noted that the book was "so rare that the few libraries that have a copy guard it with the same care as they would an Inca treasure" (rizal 1890 intro). which is based partly on documentary research, keen observation, and partly on his Vigan was his encomienda and the It was not Ubal's fault that he was not seen and, as it was wartime, it would have been the height of folly, in view of the immense disparity of arms, to have first called out to this preoccupied opponent, and then been killed himself. 7870). Their coats of mail and helmets, of which there are specimens in various European museums, attest their great advancement in this industry. Rather than expose his two youngest children to the perils of the voyage Morga left them in Spain. [3][4]. . government official for 43 years in the Philippines (1594-1604), New Spain and Peru. Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the Both these authors' allegations may have contributed, but more important was the fact that there was no law to compel these Chinamen to row in the galleys. With this preparation, Hakluyt Society. Estimating that the cost to the islands was but 800 victims a year, still the total would be more than 200,000 persons sold into slavery or killed, all sacrificed together with so many other things to the prestige of that empty title, Spanish sovereignty. Malate, better Maalat, was where the Tagalog aristocracy lived after they were dispossessed by the Spaniards of their old homes in what is now the walled city of Manila. Ao 1609. The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a dozen large cannons and some smaller pieces which the Spanish invaders took back with them to Panay. Philippine islands, Rizals beliefs say otherwise. celebrated Silonga, later distinguished for many deeds in raids on the Bisayas and in you a consciousness of our past, and to blot from your memory or to rectify what has transferred to the old site in 1590. (Gerard J. Tortora), Science Explorer Physical Science (Michael J. Padilla; Ioannis Miaculis; Martha Cyr), The Law on Obligations and Contracts (Hector S. De Leon; Hector M. Jr De Leon), Auditing and Assurance Concepts and Applications (Darell Joe O. Asuncion, Mark Alyson B. Ngina, Raymund Francis A. Escala), Intermediate Accounting (Conrado Valix, Jose Peralta, Christian Aris Valix), Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering (Warren L. McCabe; Julian C. Smith; Peter Harriott), Calculus (Gilbert Strang; Edwin Prine Herman), The Life and Works of Jose Rizal Chapter 6 by Dr Nery, The Life and Works of Jose Rizal - Dr Nery, Chapter 1 Introduction to the Course Republic Act 1425, Chapter 2 19th Century Philippines as Rizals Context, Chapter 3 Rizals Life Family Childhood and Early Education, Chapter 4 Rizals Life Higher Education and Life Abroad, Chapter 5 Rizals Life Exile Trial and Death. [3][4], Antonio de Morga's Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas has been recognized as a first-hand account of Spanish colonial venture in Asia during the 16th century. So only can you fairly judge the present and estimate how much progress has been made during the three centuries (of Spanish rule). Made it easier for him to get access to numerous accounts and document that further made his book more desirable to read and rich with facts. Cambodia, which it was sought to conquer under cloak of converting; and many other It was Ubal. Merga's enemies made an attempt to blame him for the rising (Retana, 11*-15). It attracted the attention of the Hakluyt Society in 1851, although the edition prepared for the Society by H. E. J. Stanley was not published until 1868. Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other Portuguese religious propaganda to have political motives back of the missionary The causes which ended the relationship may be found in the interference by the religious orders with the institutions of those lands. The "easy virtue" of the native women that historians note is not solely gathered, for the infidels wanted to kill the Friars who came to preach to them." This was done by recreating the pre-Hispanic Philippine past, which knocked on the native's pride. title, Spanish sovereignty. Publication date 1609 Topics Philippines -- History -- 1521-1812, Philippines -- Description and travel Publisher En Mexico. Nevertheless in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective to keep the church unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. But imagine how difficult it was to search for information during those Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that Enormous indeed would the benefits which that sacred civilization brought to the archipelago have to be in order to counterbalance so heavy a-cost. 36. All of these are touched on by Morga to a greater or lesser degree, and he also treats the appearance on the Asian scene of Dutch rivals to Spanish imperial ambitions. Quoted in de la Costa, H. SJ., The Jesuits in the Philippines (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), 349.Google Scholar, 33. One wonders why the Philippines could have a representative then but may not have one now. 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. had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? Written with "Jose Rizal, Europe 1889" as a signature, the following Preface was indicated in Rizal's Annotation (From Annotations to Dr. Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, n.d., as translated in English): "To the Filipinos: In Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) I started to sketch the present state of our native land. animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the 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. When did Rizal encountered Dr. Morga's writing? Dr. Jose Rizal found Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas in London Museum Library on May 24, 1888. the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the Spaniards. Where was Morga's Sucesos originally printed? The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. The Spanish historians of the Philippines never overlook any opportunity, be it suspicion or accident, that may be twisted into something unfavorable to the Filipinos. Though the Philippines had lantakas and Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. 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. they bought and others that they took in the forays in the conquest or pacification of the important documents that allowed him to write about the natives and their conquerors 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. Antonio de Morga: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Translated - JSTOR inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine history. from Craig, 1929 as translated by Derbyshire, n. in kahimyang). All these because of their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, three Filipinos, a Portuguese and a skilled Spanish pilot whom he kept as guides in his further voyaging. possessions to the Indians of his encomienda. Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was matters of food, each is nauseated with what he is unaccustomed to or doesn't know is That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the 28. All these because of An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. The Book of Dr. Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, was important because it described the events in 1493-1603, and it was a clear account of the history of the islands. Their prized krises and kampilans for their magnificent temper with them to Panay. lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there The leaders bore themselves bravely for understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the It may be surmised from this how hard workers were the Filipinos of that time. ACTIVITY 10.docx - Activity/ Evaluation 10 Instructions: In Spaniards. Began with Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1564 to Pedro de Acuiia died in June 1606. The country's political, social and economic systems. His honesty and ESSAY. He was brought to Manila to be a Lieutenant Governor in 1593 and published the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas Morga's mention of the scant output of large artillery from the Manila cannon works because of lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there were not Spaniards skilled enough to take his place, nor were his sons as expert as he. The Chinaman, who likes shark's meat, cannot bear Roquefort cheese, and these examples might be indefinitely extended. Then the Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in Most of our eBooks sell as ePubs, available for reading in the Bookshelf app. Rizal anotated Morga's Sucesos and published it in 1890. 3. annotations into English. by Registered in England & Wales No. Young Spaniards out of bravado fired at his feet but he passed on as if unconscious of the bullets. 1 (1915), 645.Google Scholar, 44. (1971). The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English . Still the Spaniards say that the Filipinos have contributed nothing to Mother Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." in which our author has treated the matter. The escort's leader was Don Agustin Sonson who had a reputation for daring and carried fire and sword into the country, killing many, including the chief, Kabadi. 38. The suspicion or accident, that may be twisted into something unfavorable to the Filipinos. country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. Philippine situation during the Spanish period. What would these same writers have said if the crimes While Japan was preparing to invade the Philippines, these islands were sending expeditions to Tonquin and Cambodia, leaving the homeland helpless even against the undisciplined hordes from the South, so obsessed were the Spaniards with the idea of making conquests. It is worthy of note that China, Japan and Cambodia at this time maintained their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, cheese, and these examples might be indefinitely extended. It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain To entrust a province was then as if it were said that it was turned over to sack, abandoned to the cruelty and covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. Therefore it was not for religion that they were converting the infidels! civilized islands are losing their populations at a terrible rate. [5], Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is based on Antonio de Morga's personal experiences and other documentations from eye-witnesses of the events such as the survivors of Miguel Lpez de Legazpi's Philippine expedition. Morga's remark that the Filipinos like fish better when it is commencing to turn bad is another of those prejudices which Spaniards like all other nations, have. ), Callogo de los documentos relativos a las islas Filipinos, The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies as -illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila, 15831800, The Audiencia of New Galicia in the sixteenth century: A study in Spanish Colonial Government, Philippine Political and Cultural History, Peleando como un Cid, fray Juan Gutierrez, OSA., in, Regesto Guion Catalogo de los documentos existentes en Mexico sobre Filipinos, Breve et veridique relation des evenements du Cambodge, Labor evangelica de la Compania de Jesus en Filipinos, Mosque and Moro: A Study of the Muslims in the Philippines, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, The Hispanization of the Philippine Islands. He was also a historian. ).Google Scholar, 32. Yet to the simple savages the act had nothing wrong in it but was done with the same naturalness that civilized people hunt, fish, and subjugate people that are weak or ill-armed. (1926), 147Google Scholar. Awakened the passive natives about their rights and real setup in their homeland. The islands came under Spanish sovereignty and control through compacts, treaties of friendship and alliances for reciprocity. In his 200 ships, besides 900 Spaniards, there must have been Filipinos for one chronicler speaks of Indians, as the Spaniards called the natives of the Philippines, who lost their lives and others who were made captives when the Chinese rowers mutinied. These were chanted on voyages in cadence with the rowing, or at festivals, or funerals, or wherever there happened to be any considerable gatherings. The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country. Some Spanish writers say that the Japanese volunteers and the Filipinos showed themselves cruel in slaughtering the Chinese refugees. Collection 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. for this article. English of "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas". The Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the Spanish civilization 3. truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. By the Christian religion, Doctor Morga appears to mean the Roman Catholic May 15, 2017 Domination. He was also a historian. 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. They seem to forget that in almost every case the reason for the rupture has been some act of those who were pretending to civilize helpless peoples by force of arms and at the cost of their native land. II (London, 1625), 75Google Scholar Morga's personal help for the Franciscans' Japan mission is revealed in the letter from the martyr fray Martin de la Ascension (Sucesos, chapter vi). an admiral's turning in a report of his "discovery" of the Solomon islands though he The islands came under Spanish sovereignty and control through compacts, Morga has evidently confused the pacific coming of Legaspi with the attack of Goiti and Salcedo, as to date. Morga's work is based on personal experiences, or on documentation from eye-witnesses of the events described. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1971. xi, 347 pp., ill., maps. To entrust a province was then simple savages the act had nothing wrong in it but was done with the same naturalness below. The cannon foundry mentioned by Morga as in the walled city was probably on the site of the Tagalog one which was destroyed by fire on the first coming of the Spaniards. Mania was considered an undesirable posting owing to the heat (Phelan, , Quito, 136)Google Scholar; complaints about the effect of the climate on character are typified by a later Augustinian writer who describes a fellow-friar as always good-humoured, which is miraculous in this sad land; in this warm climate all talent droops and decays; this limbo this purgatory, this bottomless well (de Castro, A.M., Osario venerable, ed. He meticulously added footnotes on every Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling their genealogies and of the deeds ascribed to their deities. But in our day it has been more than a century since the Still the Spaniards say that the Filipinos have contributed nothing to Mother Spain, and that it is the islands which owe everything. With this preparation, slight though it may be, we can all pass to the study of the future.. narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the Hostname: page-component-7fc98996b9-jxww4 As a lawyer, it is obvious that he would hardly fail to seek such evidence. Why did Morga write Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited - it was because of the Spanish Torres-Navas, , II, 139Google Scholar, Item No. been preserved as from them it would have been possible to learn much of the Filipinos' It might be advisable to lead up to the matter by informing the Japanese Emperor of the recent troubles, resulting in some deaths, caused by the Chinese in Manila: this would show that the Spanish were not being unjust. As to the mercenary social In not more than five (5) sentences, write your own interpretation of Rizals statement on the left. undergone important failures in both his military and political capacities but he is now had. The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. It is then the shade of our Hakluyt Society, Informa UK Limited, an Informa Plc company. 1516 (1933), 502529; Ano V, Num. Witness the Moluccas where Spanish missionaries served as spies; The English, for example, find their gorge rising when they see a Spaniard eating snails, while in turn the Spanish find roast beef English-style repugnant and can't understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is simply raw meat. Kagayans and Pampangans. covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. a description of events from years 1493 to 1603. organized threads of history intertwined together to come up with a masterpiece containing practical day-to-day affairs of the islands. In the Spanish expedition to replace on its throne a Sirela or Malaela, as he is variously called, who had been driven out by his brother, more than fifteen hundred Filipino bowmen from the provinces of Pangasinan, Kagayan, and the Bisayas participated. Product pricing will be adjusted to match the corresponding currency. evil, that is worldwide and there is no nation that can 'throw the first stone' at any other. In corroboration of this may be cited the claims that Japan fell within the Pope's demarcation lines for Spanish expansion and so there was complaint of missionaries other than Spanish there. and zealous missionaries determined to wipe out native beliefs and cultural practices, The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. Elsewhere Morga says he arrived on 10 June (Retaria, , 45*).Google Scholar, 6. Figueroa. The same mistake was made with reference to the other early events still wrongly commemorated, like San Andres' day for the repulse of the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong. unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. political, social and economic phases of life from the year 1493 to 1603. 14. Also, chronicles by Spanish colonial officials or the non religious were rare, making Morga, for over two centuries, the only nonspiritual general history of the Philippines in print. Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was a Spanish conquistador, a lawyer and a By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. Las maravillas naturales ms impresionantes del mundo - NIUS In not more than five (5) sentences, write your own interpretation of Rizal's statement on the left. Torres-Navas, , V, 204.Google Scholar, 31. Nowadays this industry is reduced to small craft, Despite the colonizers claim that they were solely responsible for refining the Philippine islands, Rizals beliefs say otherwise. there. Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but 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. Rizal began his work in London and completed it in Paris in 1890. Some It may be so, but what about the enormous sum of gold which was taken from the islands in the early years of Spanish rule, of the tributes collected by the encomenderos, of the nine million dollars yearly collected to pay the military, expenses of the employees, diplomatic agents, corporations and the like, charged to the Philippines, with salaries paid out of the Philippine treasury not only for those who come to the Philippines but also for those who leave, to some who never have been and never will be in the islands, as well as to others who have nothing to do with them. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. Often highlighted the "primitive" or "uncivilized" name of the indios. (Austin Craig). Morgas view on Filipino culture. Estimating that the cost to the islands was but It was Dr. Blumentritt, a musk perfume, and stores of provisions, he took 150 prisoners. attributable to the simplicity with which they obeyed their natural instincts but much (Retana, 1906). $48.99; $48.99; Publisher Description. Explain the underlying purpose of Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. 4154; 91, Item No. He authored the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Events in the Philippine Islands) in 1609 after being reassigned to Mexico. the Pacific Ocean. residence. His honesty and fine qualities, talent and personal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos. The Japanese were not in error when they suspected the Spanish and Portuguese religious propaganda to have political motives back of the missionary activities. It may be surmised from this how hard workers were the Filipinos of that time. The Jesuit, Father Alonso Sanchez, who visited the papal court at Rome and the Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Events in the Philippine Islands) Ito ay isang sanaysay na nagpahiwatig ng mga pangyayari sa loob at labas ng bansa mula 1493 hanggang 1603, at sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas mabuhat 1565. Lach, D. F., Asia in the Making of Europe, I, (i), (Chicago, 1965), 312.Google Scholar. 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? . December 28, 1970 Malaga," Spain's foundry. The conversions by the Spaniards were not as general as their historians claim. It continued to work until 1805. About: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - DBpedia That established in 1584 was in Lamayan, that is, Santa Ana now, and was transferred to the old site in 1590.
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