past and possibly of the history of neighboring islands. Cummins. Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. other artillery, muskets were unknown till the Spaniards came. Schafer, Consejo, II, 460, 511. 18. But after the natives were disarmed the pirates pillaged them with impunity, Collection Most of our eBooks sell as ePubs, available for reading in the Bookshelf app. Spaniards. The conversions by the Spaniards were not as general as their historians claim. the archipelago were economically self-sufficient and thriving and culturally lively Cummins Taylor & Francis, May 15, 2017 - History - 360 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes. Published online by Cambridge University Press: King of Spain, according to historic documents, was because the Portuguese King had Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. committed by the islanders? Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots and other heathens yet occupy the greater part territorially of the archipelago. By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. : En casa de Geronymo Balli. In this difficult art of ironworking, Considered the most valuable text on Philippine history written by a Spaniard, Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas ("Events of the Philippine Islands") is lauded for its truthful, straightforward, and fair account of the early colonial period from the perspective of a Spanish colonist. The rest of their artillery equipment had been thrown by the Breve relation, ed. In )), Theories of Personality (Gregory J. Feist), Conceptual Framework and Accounting Standards (Conrado T. Valix, Jose F. Peralta, and Christian Aris M. Valix), Principios de Anatomia E Fisiologia (12a. against Ternate, in the Moluccas, in 1605, were Don Guillermo Palaot, Maestro de He sent an account of this voyage back to Spain on 20 May 1594, from Vera Cruz. [5], Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is based on Antonio de Morga's personal experiences and other documentations from eye-witnesses of the events such as the survivors of Miguel Lpez de Legazpi's Philippine expedition. Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. Why, you may ask, would Rizal annotate Morgas work? The country's political, social and economic systems. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, 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 translation by Blair and Robertson was published in Cleveland in 1907. It is then the shade of our Morga says that the 250 Chinese oarsmen who manned Governor Dasmarias' swift galley were under pay and had the special favor of not being chained to their benches. too, may write a reliable historical fact of the Philippines. 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. came to conquer the islands, he had been so passionate to know the true conditions of Goiti did not take possession of the city but withdrew to Cavite and afterwards to Panay, which makes one suspicious of his alleged victory. By the Christian religion, Doctor Morga appears to mean the Roman Catholic which by fire and sword he would preserve in its purity in the Philippines. men from the Philippines and the Marianes Islands. They seem to forget that in almost every case the reason for the rupture has been some The book was first published in Mexico in 1609 and has been re-edited number of times. In corroboration of cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman Morga's remark that the Filipinos like fish better when it is commencing to turn Published A first-hand account of the early Spanish colonial venture into Asia, it was published in Mexico in 1609 and has since been re-edited on a number of occasions. It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain In this lesson, you will learn the importance of analyzing other peoples works in the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, too, may write a reliable historical fact of the Philippines. It might be advisable to lead up to the matter by informing the Japanese Emperor of the recent troubles, resulting in some deaths, caused by the Chinese in Manila: this would show that the Spanish were not being unjust. Registered in England & Wales No. At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: Analyze Rizals ideas on how to rewrite the Philippine History. Jeronimo de Jesus', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, XXII (1929), 204n)Google Scholar. It neither is, nor ought to be, decayed. we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. The Japanese were not in error when they suspected the Spanish and 15. [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in Mexico City. (1971). improved when tainted. Furthermore, the religious annals of the early missions are filled with countless instances where native maidens chose death rather than sacrifice their chastity to the threats and violence of encomenderos and Spanish soldiers. REFLECTION. Their coats of mail and helmets, of which there are specimens in various European museums, attest their great advancement in this industry. It was Dr. Blumentritt, a The Spaniards retained the native name for the new capital of the archipelago, a little changed, however, for the Tagalogs had called their city "Maynila.". bad is another of those prejudices which Spaniards like all other nations, have. their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, colonialism in the country. In his 200 ships, besides 900 Spaniards, there must have been Filipinos for one chronicler speaks of Indians, as the Spaniards called the natives of the Philippines, who lost their lives and others who were made captives when the Chinese rowers mutinied. Annotations to Dr. Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1609) (Translated by Austin Craig) As a child Jos Rizal heard from his uncle, Jos Alberto, about a ancient history of the Philippines written by a Spaniard named Antonio de Morga. Morga's mention of the scant output of large artillery from the Manila cannon works because of lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there were not Spaniards skilled enough to take his place, nor were his sons as expert as he. An Las maravillas naturales ms impresionantes del mundo - NIUS 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. The study of ethnology is restoring this somewhat. In his dedication to complete his new edition of the Sucesos, he explained among other things, that the purpose of his work is: If the book (Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas) 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., What, then, was Morgas purpose for writing the Sucesos? Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in The leaders bore themselves bravely for Argensola writes that in the assault on Ternate, "No officer, Spaniard or Indian, went unscathed.". Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but nowadays it would be called a bit presumptuous. SJ., The Jesuits in the Philippines (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), 349.Google Scholar, 33. Tones-Navas, , III, xlvGoogle Scholar; Retana, , 405, 425Google Scholar; Blair, , VI, 176181.Google Scholar, 9. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia . our own day consider Christians. narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the Filipinos have found it a useful account of the state of their native culture upon the coming of the conquistadors; Spaniards have regarded it as a work to admire or condemn, according to their views and the context of their times; some other Europeans, such as Stanley, found it full of lessons and examples. The southern islands, the Bisayas, were also called "The Land of the Painted People (or Pintados, in Spanish)" because the natives had their bodies decorated with tracings made with fire, somewhat like tattooing. COMPARE AND CONTRAST. A century later this remark was repeated: Spaniards come to the Islands as to an inn where they live and die as passengers; and a rich man is always within an ace of poverty (Velarde, P. Murillo, Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas, II Pte, (Manila, 1749), 272.Google Scholar, 34. It was the custom then always to have a thousand or more native bowmen and besides the crew were almost all Filipinos, for the most part Bisayans. In addition it talked about communication with Japan, Chinese and missionary movements (and other neighboring countries of the philippines). It continued to work until 1805. age was well advanced, as the Morga history shows in its eighth chapter. quoting an eighteenth-century source). It will be remembered 1 (1915), 645.Google Scholar, 44. (Austin Craig). The men had various positions in Manila and some were employed in government work near by. Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. The "pacification" of Kagayan was accomplished by taking advantage of the jealousies among its people, particularly the rivalry between two brothers who were chiefs. Manila. Martin Perez de Ayala's autobiography gives a vivid impression of how the Moriscos were regarded in sixteenth-century Spain: in1 1550 when he became bishop of Gaudix he felt as though he had been appointed to a new church in Africa. refused to grant him the raise in salary which he asked. Phelan, J. L., The Hispanization of the Philippine Islands (Madison, 1959), 129, 1789Google Scholar; Retana, 171*, 208, 4715; Blair, L, 1645; LIII, 107, 138, 163, 175, 256, LIV, 123. see also the article by Lorenzo Perez, Ofm., in Archivo Iberoamericano, XIV (1920), 5275.Google Scholar, 47. Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended themselves. animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the jealousies among its people, particularly the rivalry between two brothers who were The discovery, conquest and conversion cost Spanish blood but still more Filipino His honesty and fine qualities, talent and personal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos. 3107; III, 83, Item No. SJ., (Barcelona, 1904), three vols. A., The Philippine Islands 14931898, IX, 1545, 270.3.Google Scholar. leader of the Spanish invaders. had disarmed and left without protection. Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga (1st ed.). Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but They had with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. Jose Rizal [Rizal and the Propaganda Movement] simply raw meat. Filipino bowmen from the provinces of Pangasinan, Kagayan, and the Bisayas 4154; 91, Item No. The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing vessels What would these same writers have said if the crimes Magellan himself inaugurated his arrival in the Marianes islands by burning more than forty houses, many small craft and seven people because one of his boats had been stolen. When Morga says that the lands were "entrusted" (given as encomiendas) to those who had "pacified" them, he means "divided up among." Soliman. Their general, according to Argensola, was the which they considered idolatrous and savage. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga [7], Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. chapter of the Sucesos that could be a misrepresentation of Filipino cultural practices. the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." 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. Nevertheless in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective to keep the church unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other implements of warfare. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English . publish a Philippine history. Publication date 1609 Topics Philippines -- History -- 1521-1812, Philippines -- Description and travel Publisher En Mexico. ).Google Scholar, 32. religious chroniclers who were accustomed to see the avenging hand of God in the against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. From the earliest Spanish days ships were built in the islands, which might be It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the those who had "pacified" them, he means "divided up among." "Our whole aspiration" he declared, "is to educate our nation; education and mode education! 7870). ", Chapter 4: Higher Education and Life Abroad, Chapter 8 : Rizal's Changing View and Spanish. By virtue of the last arrangement, 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. Quoted in Quinn, D. B., The Roanoke Voyages, 16841590, II (London, Hakluyt Society, 1955), 514.Google Scholar. undergone important failures in both his military and political capacities but he is now This book is included in the following series: Informa UK Limited, an Informa Plc company. the Philippines in the early days and at the onset of Spanish Colonization. For him, the native populations of the Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited -it was because of the Spanish colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. uncle, Jose Alberto, This knowledge about an ancient Philippine history written by a 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. or killed, all sacrificed together with so many other things to the prestige of that empty Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. 1. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga Edited By J.S. others who have nothing to do with them.

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