RIZAL’S ANNOTATION

OF ANTONIO
MORGA’S SUCESOS
DE LAS ISLAS
FILIPINAS
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 OBJECTIVES:
• Antonio de Morga and Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas
• Rizal and His Reasons
• Consideration of Rizal in choosing Morga
• Purpose of Rizal in His Annotation
• Observation about early History of Philippines
Antonio de Morga
and Sucesos de Las
Islas Filipinas
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 Antonio De Morga
• Conquistador, Historical Anthropologist
• Spanish Lawyer and Lieutenant Governor General of the
Philippines from 1595 to 1603
• Author of Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas
• Produced the first lay official history of Spain’s invasion of
the Philippines
SUCESOS DE LAS
FILIPINAS
• Means The Philippine Island, named in honor
of King Philip II of Spain
• Sucesos means the work of an honest observer,
a versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings
of the administration from the inside
 What is this book
about?
• One of the important works of the Philippines about the colonization of
Spain, published by Antonio De Morga in Mexico 1609
• Explains the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and
the colonized country
• The book is based on the experience and observation of Antonio De
Morga
• Annotated by Jose Rizal with a prologue by Dr.Ferdinand Blumentritt
 Rizal and His
Reasons
To learn about the Philippines’ condition during Spanish Era
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Theory about the country’s self-sufficiency and wealthy economy

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Spanish conquest contribution to the downfall of Philippines

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Consideration of Rizal in choosing
Morga
• Rare
• Objective
• More sympathetic to the Indios
• Morga was a layman not a religious chronicler
• Morga played a major role in the events of the Philippine island
OBSERVATION ABOUT THE
EARLY PHILIPPINE
HISTORY
• The civilization of the Pre-Spanish Filipinos was well
advanced
• Advancement in the field of Army and Navy
• Advancement in Philippine Merchandise
• Beliefs and Traditions
THANK
YOU