So rizal found the book while he was in London at the British museum’s reading room.

→ So nakita ni Jose Rizal yung book ni morga

He hand copied the whole 351 pages of the book.
→ Nakita nya yung book and syempre wala pang gaanong xerox noon, wala pa naman photo
copy so he hand copy the 351 pages.
And annotated every chapter of it.
So talagang pinag-aralan ni Jose Rizal and nagkaroon sya ng comments sa every chapter.
It was the first historical work on the Phil. by a Filipino. It is the first history written from the
point of view of the colonized not the colonizer.

RIZAL’S ANNOTATION
→ Now we will be discussing Rizal’s annotation, it falls into two categories.
→First: Straight forward historical annotations, where Rizal amplifies or corrects the original.
→The second is, The annotations which, though historically based, reflect his strong anticlerical
bias.

RIZAL’S PURPOSE
→ First we need to know the purpose of Rizal annotating sucesos de las islas Filipinas. His
purpose are these
To awaken the consciousnece of the Filipinos
To correct what has been distorted about the Philippines
To prove that the Filipinos are civilize / advanced
-way before the coming of spaniards.

Rizal’s annotation
• The people of the Philippines had a culture on their own, before the coming of the
Spaniards
 • The people of the pre-Hispanic Philippines is advanced, has high literacy rate, self
sufficient and has smooth foreign relations.
 Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the Spanish colonization.
 The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its past.

Yan ang gustong patunayan ni Jose Rizal na kapalpakan ang nangyari noong dumating ang mga
espanyol at hindi pinaunlad ang pilipinas.

Rizal’s annotation
• In his annotation, he included the colonial history of the Philippines, being in prolonged
periods of suffering that many people have been subjected to.
• “The Philippines was depopulated, impoverished and retorted, astounded by metaphor,
with no confidence in their past, still without faith in her present and without faltering
hope in the future”.

FERDINAND BLUEMENTRITT’S prologue to sucesos de las islas filipinas

• He wrote it in Spanish even though German is his native language.
• Encouraged Rizal to write about the Philippines’ pre-colonial History.
• He praised Rizal’s works as “Scholarly and well-thought out”.
• Noted that the book is so rare that very few libraries has it and guarded it like a treasure
(ABOUT BLUEMENTRITT) so konti lang yung copies kaya ang kagandahan nun nakuha ni
Jose Rizal, and nakikilala yung work ni morga, which is contrary to others books na nagawa ng
mga Friars.

However, Bluementritt criticized some points made by Rizal’s so may nakita rin naman si
bluementritt na hindi nya nagustuhan sa nagawa ni Jose Rizal. And we can say that good
Feedback ito kase hindi sya nagaa firm kaagad sa mga gawa ng mga kahit kaibigan nya pa yun.
So gumawa din sya ng explanation on two accounts.
• He noticed that Rizal had committed the mistakes of many modern historians who judged
events in the past
• He said that Rizal shouldn’t condemn Catholicism even though they didn’t do any effort
to suppress calls for reform. He should just keep the critique about religious orders in the
Philippines
Kase nga dapat ang critic lang ni Rizal yung catholicism sa Pilipinas, hindi yung buong mundo,
nagkaroon sya ng generalization na lahat ng katoliko is ganito, na dapat for philippines lang yung
ginawa ni 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.

-So according to Jose Rizal

“To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the books that tell of her past”

So lagi natin naririnig kay Jose Rizal yung kasabihan na ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa
pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.

So dapat pahalagaan natin yung nakaraan para makilala ang ating sarili.