Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas

Sucesos de
las islas
filipinas
Presented By:
Markjohn M. Angeles
Clarence L. Sabaco
Remuel D. Paimonte
Leo Satur
What is sucesos de las
islas filipinas?
• It is of the important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the
Philippines published in mexico in 1609 by Antonio De Morga
• Annotated by Jose Rizal with a prologue by Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt.
Antonio De Morga
• Spanish conquistador, gov’t official, and historical anthropologist; author of Sucesos

De las Islas Filipinas (Events in the Philippines Islands).
• He wrote the first lay formal history of the Philippines conquest by spain.
• A doctorate in canon law and civil law.
Antonio De Morga
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 the accounts that he rendered.
The book (Sucesos…) narrates the History of wars, intriques, diplomacy and
evangelization of the Philippines in a somewhat disjoined way.
Modern historians (including Rizal) have noted that morga has a definite bias and
would often distort facts or even rely on invention to fit his defense of the Spanish
conquest.
Morga;s purpose for writing Sucesos
Morga wrote that the purpose for writing Sucesos was so he
could chronicle “the deeds achieved by our Spaniards I the
discovery, conquest, and conversion of the Filipinas Islands – as
well as various fortunes that they have from time to time in the
great kingdom and among the pagan peoples surrounding the
islands. “
What leads jose rizal to Sucesos De Las
Islas Filipinas
• Rizal was an earnest seeker of truth and his marked him as a historian.
• He had a burning desire to know exactly the conditions of the Philippines
when the Spaniards came ashore to the islands.
• His history was that the country was economically self-sufficient and
prosperous, Entertained the idea that it had a lively and vigorous
community.
• He believed the conquest of the Spaniards contributed in part to the
decline of the Philippine’s rich tradition and culture.
What leads jose rizal to Sucesos De Las
Islas Filipinas
• 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 research and writing and almost a year to get his
Manuscript published in Paris in January 1890
• Rizal spent his entire stay In the city of London at the british Museum’ reading room.
• Having found Morga’s book, he laboriously hand-copied the whole 351 pages of the sucesos
• Rizal proceeded to annotate every chapter of the sucesos.
Rizal’s annotation of Morga’s Sucesos
• His extensive annotation of Morga’s work number “no less than 639
items or almost two annotations.
• Rizal also annotated Morga’s typographical errors.
• He commented on every statement that could be nuanced in Filipino
cultural practices.
• For example, on page 248 Morga describes the culinary art of the ancient
Filipinos by recording: “they prefer to eat salt fish which begin to
decompose and smell.”
Ferdinand Blumentritt
Also wrote a preface emphasizing some salient points:
• The Spaniards have to correct their erroneous conception of the
filipinos as children of limited intelligence
• That there existed three kinds of Spanish delusions about the
Philippines:
• Filipinos were an inferior race
• Filipinos were not ready for parliamentary representation and
other reforms
• Denial of equal rights can be compensated by strict dispensation
of justice.
Ferdinand Blumentritt’s Prologue
• Writing in Spanish, instead of his native German language.

• Praised Rizal’s work as “scholarly and well-thought out.”
• He noted that Morga’s Sucesos was so rare that “The very few libraries that have it
guard it with the same solicitude as if it were the treasure of the Incas”
• He criticized Rizal’s annotations on two counts:
• He first observed that rizal had committed the mistake of many modern historians who
judged events in the past in the context of contemporary ideas and mores.
• He perceived as the overreach of Rizal’s denunciations of Catholicism. That Rizal
should confine his critique to there religious in the Philippines who spared no effort to
suppress calls for reform.
Rizal’s purpose of the Morga’s Sucesos
In Jose Rizal’s dedication, He explained among other things, the purpose of the new edition of
Morga’s Sucesos:
“If the book succeeds in awakening in you the consciousness of our past
which has been obliterated from memory and in rectifying what has been
falsified and calumniated, I shall not have labored In vain, and on such
basis, little though it may be, we can all devote ourselves to studying the
future.”
3 Main Propositions in Rizal’s New
Edition of Morga’s Sucesos
• The people of the Philippines had a culture on their own, before the
coming of the Spaniards
• Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the

Spanish colonization
• The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its
past.
RIZAL’S ANNOTATION
In his historical essay, which includes the narration of Philippines colonial history,
punctuated as it was with incidences of agony, tensions, tragedies and prolonged
periods of suffering that many of people had been subjected to.
He corrected observed that as a colony of Spain, “The Philippines was
depopulated, impoverished and retarded, astounded by metaphorsis, with no
confidence in her past, still without faith in her present and without faltering hope
in the future.”
He went to say:
Little by little, they (Filipinos) lost their old traditions, the mementoes of their past;
they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, 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. They declined,
degrading themselves in their own eyes. They become ashamed of what was their own;
they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign and incomprehensible; their spirit
was damaged and it surrendered.""
Rizal's annotation of Morga's Sucesos
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 first lay bare the past, in order the
better to judge the present and to survey the road trodden during three
centuries."
Like almost all of you, I was born and brought up in ignorance of our country's past and
so, without knowledge or authority to speak of what I neither saw nor have studied, I
deem it necessary to quote the testimony of an illustrious Spaniard who in the beginning
of the new era controlled the destinies of the Philippines and had personal knowledge of
our ancient nationality in its last days.
It is then the shade of our ancestor's civilization which the author will call before you... If
the work serves to awaken in you a consciousness of our past, and to blot from your
memory or to rectify what has been falsified or is calumny, then I shall not have labored
in vain. With this preparation, slight though it may be, we can all pass to the study of the
future.
JOSE RIZAL
The "SUCESOS" as annotated by Rizal, appeared for the
first time in the Philippines sixty eight years later when a
publisher in Manila, published the new work in 1958, to
contribute his bit to the national effort to honor Rizal. The
present work is the sixth volume of the Series of Writings of Jose
Rizal which the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission has
no published in commemoration of his birth.
“To Foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to
open the books that tell of her past.”
JOSE RIZAL
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• Spanish conquistador, gov’t official, and historical anthropologist; author of Sucesos

• Writing in Spanish, instead of his native German language.

• Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the

To the Filipinos: "In my "NOLI ME TANGERE" I commenced to sketch

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