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Rizal'S Annotations of Morga'S Work Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas

Here is a 200-word comparative essay on Rizal and Morga's views of pre-colonial Filipino culture: While both Rizal and Morga wrote about pre-colonial Philippine culture and society, they had differing perspectives. Morga, as a Spanish colonial officer, viewed the Filipinos and their culture in a negative light, claiming they were backward and inferior. However, Rizal strongly disagreed with this portrayal. Through his careful annotations of Morga's 1609 work Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, Rizal sought to challenge Morga's depiction and instead show that pre-colonial Philippine society was rich and established prior to Spanish arrival. R

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Rizal'S Annotations of Morga'S Work Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas

Here is a 200-word comparative essay on Rizal and Morga's views of pre-colonial Filipino culture: While both Rizal and Morga wrote about pre-colonial Philippine culture and society, they had differing perspectives. Morga, as a Spanish colonial officer, viewed the Filipinos and their culture in a negative light, claiming they were backward and inferior. However, Rizal strongly disagreed with this portrayal. Through his careful annotations of Morga's 1609 work Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, Rizal sought to challenge Morga's depiction and instead show that pre-colonial Philippine society was rich and established prior to Spanish arrival. R

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RIZAL’S ANNOTATIONS OF

MORGA’S WORK SUCESOS


DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

Prepared by :Maureen D. Aguisando


At the end of the lesson, the student should be
able to:

1. Analyze Rizal's ideas on how to read and study


Philippine History

2. Compare and contrast Rizal and Morgas's


differing views of the Filipinos and Philippine
Culture
 Between 1889 to 1890, Dr. Jose Rizal spent several
months in London as he tried to improve his mastery
of the English language.

 He stayed as a boarder with Beckett Family at 37


Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, Camden town,
Greater London.

 Rizal was greatly interested in studying pre-colonial


Philippines.

 He believed that the Philippines already had an


established community, way of life and society, and
was not as backward and inferior as the Spaniards
claimed.
 On the contrary, Rizal was resolved that the
arrival of the Spaniards contributed to the
decline of the rich pre-colonial Filipino
society and culture.

 Through a letter of introduction from


Reinhold Rost, the Director of the India
Office Library, Rizal was granted a reader's
pass to the British Museum.

 He stumbled upon Antonio de Morga's


Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1609).
 Rizal laboriously copied the entire 351-page work while making
annotations on every nuance in Filipino cultural practices that
Morga wrote about, and even on Morga's typographical errors.
 Rizal's dedication to annotate Morga's work was further enriched
by the promise of publication by a wealthy Filipino exile in
London, Antonio Regidor.

 Regidor committed to equally divide the profits between him and


Rizal as soon as his investments were recovered.

 Unfortunately, Regidor backed out of the deal prompting Rizal to


publish the manuscript by himself on September 1889 with the
title Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas por el Doctor Antonio de Morga,
Oba publicada en Mejico en el año de 1609, nuevamente sacada
aluz y anotada por Jose Rizal y precedida de un prologo del prof.
 Fernando Blumentritt (Events of the
Philippine Islands: published in Mexico in
1609 by Dr. Antonio de Morga, a work
published in Mexico in the 1609, reprinted
and annotated by Rizal and preceded by an
introduction by professor Ferdinand
Blumentritt).
 According to Ambeth Ocampo (1998), Rizal's
choice of Morga's work as primary source for
studying Philippine pre-colonial history
instead of Antonio Pigafetta's was due to the
objectivity and civil nature of the former in
contrast to the religious nature of the latter.

 Morga was said to be not only an eyewitness


but also a major actor as he narrated his
accounts.
 The 1609 original work of Morga was reprinted
in full until the publication of Rizal's work in
1889 in Paris.

 In 1909, Wenceslao Retana made a


reproductions of the original including the
misprints drawn from the Archivo General de
Indias in Seville, Rizal's version was republished
in 1958 in the Philippines, and an English
translation was commissioned and published in
1961 by the Jose Rizal National Centennial
Commission.
TLA1: The Philippines: A Look Back

Expected Output: Comparative Essay of Rizal and Morgas's View of Pre


Colonial Filipino Culture

Instruction: Make a comparison of Rial and Morga's view of pre-colonial


Filipino Culture. . Using this
link:https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/966/dr-jose-rizals-
annotations-to-morgas-1609-philippine-history for your suggested
reading. Then, write a 200-to-300 word essay on these comparisons.

TLA2: Differing Views of the Pre-conquest Past


Expected Output: Table of Comparison
Instruction: Complete the table provided.

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