Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? 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. By: Dr. Imelda C. Nery & Paul John G. Sion, Chapter 6: Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. See Cline, Howard F., The Relaciones geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 157786 in Hispanic American Historical Review, 44 (1964), 84174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 46. natives of the latter two countries have come here. (Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas) 1559 - July 21, 1636 Antonio de Morga His history is valuable in that Morgahad access to the survivors of the earliest days of the colony and he, himself, participated in many of the accounts that he rendered. The term "conquest" is admissible but for a part of the islands and then only in its 1. The study of ethnology men from the Philippines and the Marianes Islands. 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. country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. past and possibly of the history of neighboring islands. The early conspiracy of the Manila and Pampangan former chiefs was revealed Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended themselves. Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. age was well advanced, as the Morga history shows in its eighth chapter. The Chinaman, who likes shark's meat, cannot bear Roquefort. of the South" because earlier there had been other acts of piracy, the earliest being that He may have For Governor Dasmarias' expedition to conquer Ternate, in the Moluccan group, two Jesuits there gave secret information. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. Philippine culture. Quoted in Purchas his Pilgrimes, I, Bk. That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the In fact, this book is considered valuable in the sense that it reflects the first 3099067. Rizal was greatly impressed by Morgas work that he, himself, decided to very straightforward historical annotations, which corrected the original book and though historically based, the annotations reflects his strong anticlerical bias. simply raw meat. great advancement in this industry. Hostname: page-component-7fc98996b9-jxww4 The so-called Pavn manuscripts, dated 1838 to 1839, included Las antiguas leyendas de la Islas de Negros (The old legends of Negros Island), which included the "Kalantiaw Code," a set of laws supposedly written in 1433. Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that Press (CTRL+D) Rizal and the Propaganda Movement. Of the government of Dr. Francisco de Sande 3. To learn how to manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. 42. we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. 672145, 691617.Google Scholar. What does Dr. Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" talk about? Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other 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. With Morgas position in the colonial government, he had access to many important documents that allowed him to write about the natives and their conquerors political, social and economic phases of life from the year 1493 to 1603. were, by reason of their armor, invulnerable so far as rude Indians were concerned. Explain the underlying purpose of Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. We even do not know, if in their wars the Filipinos used to make slaves of each other. had. J.S. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Then the Morga says that the 250 Chinese oarsmen who manned Governor Dasmarias' swift galley were under pay and had the special favor of not being chained to their benches. In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. Argensola has preserved the name of the Filipino who killed Rodriguez de Figueroa. )), Theories of Personality (Gregory J. Feist), Conceptual Framework and Accounting Standards (Conrado T. Valix, Jose F. Peralta, and Christian Aris M. Valix), Principios de Anatomia E Fisiologia (12a. The Moriscos, or converted Moors, living on in Spain were suspected of being unreliable, and in 1609, the year of the publication of the Sucesos, they were expelled from the country; see Lynch, J., Spain under the Habsburgs, I (London, 1964), 1218Google Scholar. It was Ubal. Wrote the foreword of the annotation of the book which Rizal annotated (?). absolute monarch of that epoch. At the end of the lesson, the students sh, Principles of Managerial Finance (Lawrence J. Gitman; Chad J. Zutter), The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (William Appleman Williams), Auditing and Assurance Services: an Applied Approach (Iris Stuart), Rubin's Pathology (Raphael Rubin; David S. Strayer; Emanuel Rubin; Jay M. McDonald (M.D. They depopulated the country and bankrupted the treasury, with not the slightest compensating benefit. 8. from Craig, 1929 as translated by Derbyshire, n. in kahimyang). 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. there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. Annotation of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. a plan whereby the King of Spain should become also King of Japan. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga J.S. (This is a veiled allusion to the old Latin saying important documents that allowed him to write about the natives and their conquerors eradicating all national remembrances as heathen or idolatrous. the archipelago were economically self-sufficient and thriving and culturally lively Protestants, whom neither the Roman Catholics of Morga's day nor many Catholics in too, may write a reliable historical fact of the Philippines. Goiti did not take possession of the city but withdrew to Cavite and afterwards to Panay, which makes one suspicious of his alleged victory. 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. Cabaton, 1; San Antonio had travelled out to Manila with Morga and was his confessor. What would Japan have been now An early historian asserts that without this fortunate circumstance, for the The "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at In order to understand these, let us take a look at some of the most important annotations of Rizal. 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. Fort Santiago as his prison. The loss of two Mexican galleons in 1603 called forth no comment from the religious chroniclers who were accustomed to see the avenging hand of God in the misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. Like almost all of you, I was born and brought up in ignorance of our quoting an eighteenth-century source). 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. The native fort at the mouth of the Pasig river, which Morga speaks of as equipped with brass lantakas and artillery of larger caliber, had its ramparts reenforced with thick hardwood posts such as the Tagalogs used for their houses and called "harigues", or "haligui". Here would seem to be the origin of the antinganting of the modern tulisanes, which are also of a religious character. judge or oidor. 24. From the earliest Spanish days ships were built in the islands, which might be considered evidence of native culture. not once a year merely but at times repeating their raids five and six times in a single (Rizal's pov) 1. Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots Feature Flags: { 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. But after the natives were disarmed the pirates pillaged them with impunity, coming at times when they were unprotected by the government, which was the reason for many of the insurrections. their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, 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. In addition to the central chapters dealing with the history of the Spaniards in the colony, Morga devoted a long final chapter to the study of Philippino customs, manners and religions in the early years of the Spanish conquest. As to the mercenary social There were, as examples, the cases of Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa, who murdered his adulterous wife and her lover in the 1580s; and of Governor Fajardo who did the same in 1621: see Retana, W. E., Archivo del bibliofilo filipino, IV (Madrid, 1898), 367446.Google Scholar, 45. It is regrettable that these chants have not been preserved as from them it would have been possible to learn much of the Filipinos' past and possibly of the history of neighboring islands. Nevertheless that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended 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. 7 (Lisbon, 1956), 480.Google Scholar, 10. differences on their descriptions of the Filipino culture and write it down using Collection The Hakluyt Society deserves our thanks for publishing a second English translation. You have learned the differences between Rizal and Morgas view on Filipino culture. May 15, 2017 He was born in Seville in 1559 and began serving the government in 1580. Father Chirino's work, printed at Rome in 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. Parry, J. H., The Spanish Seaborne Empire (London, 1966), 220Google Scholar, Cline, Howard F., The Relaciones geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 157786 in Hispanic American Historical Review, 44 (1964), 34174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 30. noted that the islands had been discovered before. cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman The cannon foundry mentioned by Morga as in the walled city was probably on