Abstract
La Historia de Jaen (1628) is one of the lesser known texts that circulated under the name of the renowned humanist from La Mancha, Bartolome Jimenez Paton. In this article, I study the controversy surrounding the book’s authorship, and its attribution to Pedro Ordonez de Ceballos. I also insert the text within the laus civitatis encomiastic tradition, and in the religious panegyric, as one more ingredient in the counter reformation discourses of the Spain of that period. Nevertheless, given the extension of the volume, my contribution strictly refers to the study of the formulas used by the authors in order to praise the distinguished men who carried out a significant part of their work in the old kingdom of Jaen. I conclude by summarizing some narrative techniques that are characteristic of fictionalized panegyric.
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