ANNOTATION OF

ANTONIO MORGA'S
SUCECOS DE LAS ISLAS
FILIPINAS
 Introduction
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:

1. Learn the content of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas

Filipinmas; and

2. Understand the significance of Rizal's annotation of Morga's book

 Spanish
Sucesos de Las llas Filipinas por el
Doctor Antonio de Morga. Obra
publicada en Mejico en el anyo de
1609, neuvamente sacada a luz y
anotada por Jose Rizal, y precidida de
un prologo del professor Fernando
Blumentritt.
English
Events in the Philippine Island by, Dr.
Antonio de Morga. A work published
in Mexico in the year 1609, reprinted
and annotated by Jose Rizal preceded
by the introduction by professor
Ferdinand Blumentritt.
Definition of Terms
ANNOTATION
-a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.

SUCECOS
-events, happenings, or occurences

LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

-Means "the philippine island".
What initially prompted Rizal to
do the annotation?

• Rizal have been reflecting on

his country's history.

• Blumentritt could not be

persuaded to write a history of the
Philippines.
 Who is Antonio de Morga?

- Antonio De Morga
-Born in 1559 in Seville

Education
-Attained a Doctorate in Cannon Law
University of Salamanca (1574)

Work
-Taught briefly in Osuna
-Lieutenant Governor
-Judge in Audiencia
WHY CHOSE MORGA?
- The original book was rare

- Morga was a layman not a religious chronicler

-Morga is to be more objective than the other religious writers

- Morga was more sympathetic to the indios

- Morga was not only an eyewitness but a major actor in the events he
narrates
 INTRODUCTION OF SUCESOS

To the Filipinos: In Noli Me Tangere ("The Social Cancer") I started to sketch the present state of our native land. But the effect which
my effort produced made me realize that, before attempting to unroll before your eyes the other pictures which were to follow, it was
necessary first to post you on the past. So only can you fairly judge the present and estimate how much progress has been made during
the three centuries (of Spanish rule).

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.

José Rizal
Europe, 1889
 OBJECTIVES OF RIZAL IN
REWRITING PHILIPPINE HISTORY

1. To prove that Filipinos are civilized even before the Coming

of the Spaniards.

2. To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos regarding the

glorious ways of the past.

3. To correct what has been distorted about the Philippines due

to Spanish conquest.
The work consists of 8 chapters

1. Of the first discoveries of the Eastern islands.

2. Of the government of Dr. Francisco de Sande.

3. Of the government of Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa.

4. Of the government of Dr. Santiago de Vera.

5. Of the government of Gomes Perez Dasrnarinas

6. Of the government of don Francisco Tello.

7. Of the government of don Pedro de Acuna.

8. An account of the Philippine Islands.

RIZAL ANNOTATION
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THANK
YOU!