Rizal’s annotation of

Sucesos De Las Islas

Filipinas

Group 5
Antioquia | Dimanarig | Lamo | Lim | Manguerra | Ponce | Tan
 THE TELEPHONE
Getting Started.
Players must stand in a straight line. The
word or phrase can only be whispered
once, so players must pay close attention.

It Begins.
The first person in the line whispers a word
or phrase into the ear of the person
standing at their back.

The Game Continues.

Players whisper the phrase to their
neighbors until it reaches the last player in
line.

The Conclusion.
The last player says the word or phrase out
loud so everyone can hear and state if it is
an annotation of Rizal or Written By Morga.
Rizal’s annotation of
Sucesos De Las Islas
Filipinas

Group 5
Antioquia | Dimanarig | Lamo | Lim | Manguerra | Ponce | Tan
 Objectives:
 To analyze Rizal's idea on how to rewrite
Philippine History.

 To Compare and contrast Rizal and

Morga's different views about Filipinos
and Philippine culture
an·no·ta·tion
/ˌanəˈtāSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: annotation; plural noun: annotations

a note of explanation or comment added to

a text or diagram.
MEANING OF
SUCESOS de las
islas filipinas
• Las Islas Filipinas means
“The Philippine Island” in
English and was 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.
About Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas
• 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
 The Philippines is an
archipelago made up of
7,641 islands
Philippines was led by
leaders called “Datus”
Animism was widely
practiced in the pre-
colonial Philippines.
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
Peiialosa.
4. Of the government of Dr. Santiago de Vera.
5. Of the government of Gomes Perez Dasrnariiias.
6. Of the government of don Francisco Tello.
7. Of the government of don Pedro de Acuiia.
8. An account of the Philippine Islands.
 ANTONIO de

MORGA
Spanish lawyer and a
government official during
the 17th Century
 Historical Anthropologist
 Author of Sucesos De Las
Islas Filipinas
 Wrote the first lay formal
history of the Philippines
conquest by Spain.
 He is a doctorate in Canon
and Civil Law
Purpose of sucesos De las islas filipinas
Morga (1609) wrote that the
purpose for writing Sucesos was
so he could chronicle "the
deeds achieved by our
Spaniards, the discovery,
conquest, and conversion of
the Filipinas Islands - as
well as various fortunes
that they have from time to
time in the great kingdoms
and among the pagan
peoples surrounding the
WHAT
WHY
HOW
What lead jose rizal to morga’s work
• Rizal was an earnest seeker of truth and this marked
him as historian
• He had a burning desire to know exactly the condition of
the Philippines when the Spaniards came ashore to the
islands
• His theory 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 traditions and culture.
What lead jose rizal to morga’s work
• 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.
Why jose rizal chose morga’s work

• Rizal felt Morga to be more "objective" than the

religious writers whose accounts included many miracle
stories.

• Morga, compared to religious chroniclers, was more

sympathetic to the indios; and finally, Morga was
not only an eyewitness but a major actor in the
events he narrates.
Why jose rizal chose morga’s work
• Rizal's second consideration for the choice of Morga
was that it was the only civil, as opposed to religious
or ecclesiastical, history of the Philippines written
during the colonial period.

• The third consideration for the choice of Morga was

Rizal’s opinion that this secular account was more
objective, more trustworthy, than those written
by the religious missionaries which were liberally
sprinkled with tales of miracles and apparitions.
Why jose rizal chose morga’s work
• The fourth consideration in Rizal's choice of the Morga
was that it appeared more sympathetic, at least in
parts, to the indios, in contrast to the friar accounts, many
of which were biased or downright racist in tone and
interpretation

• The fifth and last consideration was that Morga was

an eyewitness, and therefore a primary source, on
the Philippines and its people at the point of first contact
with Spain.
How did jose rizal know about morga’s work

• Rizal found the book while he was in London at the

British Museum’s reading room.

• He hand copied the whole 351 pages of the book.

• And annotated every chapter of it.

• It was the first historical work on the Philippines

by a Filipino. It is the first history written from the
point of view of the colonized not the colonizer.
Rizal’s annotation
FIRST: SECOND:

straightforward the
historical annotations
annotations, which, though
where Rizal historically
amplifies or based, reflect
corrects the his strong
original. anticlerical
bias.
Rizal’s Purpose of annotating morga’s work

• To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos regarding their glorious

ways of the past

• To correct what has been distorted about the Philippines due to

Spanish Conquest

• To prove that the Filipinos are civilized/advanced even before the

coming of the 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.
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
Bluementritt criticized rizal’s 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
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
THE
ANAGRAM
1.Each group will be given a chance to rearrange the scrambled
words flash on the screen.
2.Each group must choose a member who will become a
representative who will stand up and shout WE ARE READY.
3.The group of the representative who stand and shout first will
sing and dance.
4.Then the representative will write the arranged words on the
board
5.After arranging if they are sure. One member will write it on the
board and read the passage or line.
6.After reading the line he/she must guess if it is an Annotation
of Rizal or written by Morga.
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ANSWER:

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. U
7. V
8. W
9. Z
10. S
11. Rizal
12. Rizal
13. Rizal
14. Rizal
15. Morga