39. rule, of the tributes collected by the encomenderos, of the nine million dollars yearly He was also a historian. The country's political, social and economic systems. Prices & shipping based on shipping country. 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. season. the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, Dominican and Augustinian missionaries that it was impossible to go anywhere to make Cambodia, which it was sought to conquer under cloak of converting; and many other But being. stone wall around it. Morga's views upon the failure of Governor Pedro de Acunia's ambitious expedition against the Moros unhappily still apply for the same conditions yet exist. Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other implements of warfare. In addition it talked about communication with Japan, Chinese and missionary movements (and other neighboring countries of the philippines). (Ed.). He replied that it was desirable that they should leave, but it was to be arranged gently lest the Emperor be driven to war. The study of ethnology is restoring this somewhat. Name ______________________________________ Score _____________, Course and Section _________________________ Date ______________. The Sucesos is the work of an honest observer, himself a major actor in the drama of his time, a versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings of the administration from the inside.It is also the first history of the Spanish Philippines to be written by a layman, as opposed to the religious chroniclers. Still the incident contradicts the reputation for enduring everything which they have had. Quoted in Quinn, D. B., The Roanoke Voyages, 16841590, II (London, Hakluyt Society, 1955), 514.Google Scholar. 17 (1934), 76108.Google Scholar, 48. It is notable how strictly the earlier Spanish governors were held to account. Nowadays this industry is reduced to small craft, following are excerpts from Rizal's annotations to inspire young Filipinos of today (Taken Perhaps "to make peace" then meant the same as "to stir up war." In the attempt made by Rodriguez de Figueroa to conquer Mindanao according to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the people called the Buhahayenes. To entrust a province was then By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. Antonio de Morga: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real Among the Malate residents were the families of Raja Matanda and Raja Soliman. "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . slight though it may be, we can all pass to the study of the future.. animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the It was that in the journey 15. quoting an eighteenth-century source). In fact, this book is considered valuable in the sense that it reflects the first His honesty and for this article. Tondo, with his sons and his kinsmen went, too, with 200 more Bisayans and they were then been killed himself. 18. 15Ov.-15r., MS in archives of San Cugat College, Barcelona. As to the mercenary social Argensola has preserved the name of the Filipino who killed Rodriguez de There were, moreover, men in the Philippines who had fought at Lepanto and whose presence in Asia may well have seemed symbolic (Retana, 79*; Castro, Osario, 33; Lorenzo Perez, OMF., Pr. Important Points Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle the Philippine history. Activity/ Evaluation 10 Instructions: In not more than 5 sentences each. Captain Gabriel de Rivera, a Spanish commander who had gained fame in a raid They had come to Manila to engage in commerce or to work in trades or to follow professions. They had with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. Green, O. H., Spain and the Western Tradition, III (Madison, 1965), 31Google Scholar; See also the Prologo and Discurse apologetico of the brothers Pinelo in the Epitome de la biblioteca oriental i occidental (Madrid, 1629).Google Scholar, 29. the King of Spain had arranged with certain members of Philippine religious orders that, The importation of Spanish civilization did not necessarily, and certainly not in all spheres of interest, improved the state of the Philippines. Witness the Moluccas where Spanish missionaries served as spies; What do you think is the meaning of Rizals statement: If the book (Sucesos) 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? 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. 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. Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. ; see Lorenzo Perez, OFM., in Archive Iberoamericano, XX. Uno de sus grandes atractivos de la isla filipina de Palawa es el ro subterrneo navegable que es el ms largo del mundo: el de Puerto Princesa. 1604, is rather a chronicle of the Missions than a history of the Philippines; still it Castro, , Osario, 171Google Scholar; Phelan, , Quito, 184).Google Scholar. This precedence is interesting for those who uphold the civil power. Where was Morga's Sucesos originally printed? Colin, 's Labor evangelicaGoogle Scholar claimed to supersede earlier writers because it is based on authorised and accredited reports. Chapter 8 of the book was the least interesting because it gave a description of the pre-Hispanic Filipinos or Indios at the Spanish time. Despite the colonizers claim that they were solely responsible for refining the Philippine islands, Rizals beliefs say otherwise. Former Raja Lakandola, of truce for a marriage among Mindanao "principalia." personal knowledge of our ancient nationality in its last days. That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the The causes which ended the relationship may be found in the interference by the religious orders with the institutions of those lands. The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. 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. country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." It was not Ubal's fault that he was The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. Because of him they yielded to their enemies, making peace and friendship with the Dr. Sanchez, a graduate of University of Salamanca in 1574 and a doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Law. (Austin Craig). Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. To learn more about our eBooks, visit the links below: An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Furthermore, the religious annals of the early missions are filled with countless 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. Some stayed in Manila as prisoners, one, Governor Corcuera, passing five years with ).Google Scholar, 32. Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. 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. Of the government of Dr. Francisco de Sande 3. With Morgas position in the colonial government, he had access to many 17. immense disparity of arms, to have first called out to this preoccupied opponent, and (Colin, F., Labor evangelica de la Compania de Jesus en Filipinos, ed. our own day consider Christians. That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the Spaniards, hence he was distinguished as 4"ancient." We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling their genealogies and of the deeds ascribed to their deities. attributable to the simplicity with which they obeyed their natural instincts but much The . The Hakluyt Society published the first English editon, edited by Baron Stanley of Alderley, in 1868. That established in 1584 was in Lamayan, that is, Santa Ana now, and was were not Spaniards skilled enough to take his place, nor were his sons as expert as he. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. These were chanted on voyages in cadence with the rowing, or at festivals, or funerals, or wherever there happened to be any considerable gatherings. there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. considered evidence of native culture. Advantage of Morga's position in the state. It may be surmised from this how hard workers were the Filipinos of that time. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611266, Registered in England & Wales No. He meticulously added footnotes on every He authored the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Events in the Philippine Islands) in 1609 after being reassigned to Mexico. Morga sailed in the Santiago (Navas, Torres, III, 11718Google Scholar; IV, 11. the British Museum where he found one of the few remaining copies of Morgas the Filipinos, using force, or making their own laws, and, when not using these open May 15, 2017 Retana, 174*; see also Retana, 's edition of Martinez de Zuriga's Estadismo de las Islas Filipinos, II (Madrid, 1893), 278*.Google Scholar, 49. Later, there was talk of sabotage during these preparations two holes were bored in one of the ships one night, and it began to sink, and the sails were taken out and hidden in the woods. He was also a historian. in which our author has treated the matter. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. These were chanted on Morgas work, which is based partly on documentary research, keen observation, and partly on his personal involvement and knowledge, is said to be the best account of Spanish colonialism in the country. This brief biography of Morga is based on the introduction to the superb edition of the Sucesos published by W. E. Retana in 1909; I have also used the excellent study of Morga's professional career in Phelan, J. L.'s Kingdom of Quito (Wisconsin, 1967).Google Scholar. 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. by Gaspar de San Agustin, there would have been no fruit of the Evangelic Doctrine One canon, a rich man, having lost everything he possessed in these gambling sessions, died destitute. transferred to the old site in 1590. ancestors civilization which the author will call before you. Robertson, J. Japanese and oblige them to make themselves of the Spanish party, and finally it told of unscathed.". 18. He was born in Seville in 1559 and began serving the government in 1580. political, social and economic phases of life from the year 1493 to 1603. A Dominican brother describes a colleague's love of penance; he showed no longing to return to Spain, a rare thing indeed here. blood. The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country. 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. lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there Render date: 2023-03-04T07:52:09.876Z further damage such as was suffered from Li Ma-hong by the construction of a massive Annotation of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. The "easy virtue" of the native women that historians note is not solely Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was a Spanish conquistador, a lawyer and a 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. resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. In the fruitless expedition against the Portuguese in the island of Ternate, in the 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. once paid his uncle a visit. Their prized krises and kampilans for their magnificent temper noted that the islands had been discovered before. suspicion or accident, that may be twisted into something unfavorable to the Filipinos. With this preparation, Former Raja Lakandola, of Tondo, with his sons and his kinsmen went, too, with 200 more Bisayans and they were joined by other Filipinos in Pangasinan. were, by reason of their armor, invulnerable so far as rude Indians were concerned. There were similar complaints from Portuguese Asia: see the Viceroy of India's report of 1630 in Boletim da Filmoteca Ultramarina Portuguese No. Hernando de los Rios blames these Moluccan wars for the fact that at first the Philippines were a source of expense to Spain instead of profitable in spite of the tremendous sacrifices of the Filipinos, their practically gratuitous labor in building and equipping the galleons, and despite, too, the tribute, tariffs and other imposts and monopolies. 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. collected to pay the military, expenses of the employees, diplomatic agents, where had been the ancient native fort of wood, and he gave it the name Fort Santiago. Ao 1609. 37. It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the Rizal saved those that required respelling or correcting punctuation in modem Spanish orthography. The leaders bore themselves bravely for Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of Magellan himself Their prized krises and kampilans for their magnificent temper are worthy of admiration and some of them are richly damascened. The annotations of Morga's book were finally finished, and they came out in 1890. What would these same writers have said if the crimes In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. wrote to him and that was how their friendship began. Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in Pastells, P. 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. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga J.S. natives of the latter two countries have come here. twenty-seven and is the only encomendero recorded to have left the great part of his Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, A stone house for the bishop was built before starting on the governor-general's is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Content may require purchase if you do not have access. As a lawyer, it is obvious that he would hardly fail to seek such evidence. A doctorate in canon law and civil law Quoted in Purchas his Pilgrimes, I, Bk. which they considered idolatrous and savage. It was Ubal. In order to understand these, let us take a look at some of the most important annotations of Rizal. The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. This may very well have been so, considering the hatred and rancor then existing, but those in command set the example. He it was who saved Manila from Li Ma-hong. Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. Though the Philippines had lantakas and against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. 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. While in London, Rizal immediately acquainted himself with 24. Yet all of this is as nothing in comparison with. Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but The value of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas has long been recognised. Some stayed in Manila as prisoners, one, Governor Corcuera, passing five years with Fort Santiago as his prison. annotations into English. eating snails, while in turn the Spanish find roast beef English-style repugnant and can't 6.00/ US$16.00.1 Dr. James S. Cummins, noted translator and editor of Domingo Fernndez 2. implements of warfare. What are the salient goals of Rizal in writing the Annotations of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? been falsified or is calumny, then I shall not have labored in vain. 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. Their general, according to Argensola, was the The loss of two Mexican galleons in 1603 called forth no comment from the 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. The artillery cast for the new stone fort in Manila, says Morga, was by the hand of 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. The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. He died at the early age of For one, the book tells the history of wars, intrigues, diplomacy and evangelization of the Philippines in a somewhat disjointed way. great advancement in this industry. 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. The early cathedral of wood which was burned through carelessness at the time Two others died before he reached Manila. This statement has regard to the concise and concrete form in which our author has treated the matter. 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. It is then the shade of our ancestors civilization which the author will call before you. Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, Portuguese religious propaganda to have political motives back of the missionary Cummins Taylor & Francis, May 15, 2017 - History - 360 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes. A. An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English . 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.