La influència de Plutarc a la Primera Part de la Història de València d’En Pere-Antoni Beuter

Abstract

In the 16th century, the canon from Valencia Pere Antoni Beuter wrote some religious works as well as one historical work titled Primera Part de la Història de València. In this work the canon focused his study on 20 chapters, from the first dwellers who inhabited Spain during the Flood until, the city on the Turia river, was conquered by king James I. Therefore, Pere-Antoni used different sources of classical authors for his Chronicle to deal with the Roman Age, as he himself admitted in his prologue. Among these sources we find some Plutarch’s works such as the Lives of Sertorius and Pompeus, and the pseudoplutarchian Life of Hannibal. Hence, our research states that the author of the Chronicle actually knew Plutarch’s work. Furthermore, we have even found out some plutarchian excerpts mentioned in the Lives of Sertorius and Pompeus by the canon from Valencia.