Published in New Approaches in the Research on the Crown of Aragon

Keywords: Barcelona, Diary, Jaume Ramon Vila, Source.

This article studies the figure of the historian and heraldist Jaume Ramon Vila through the analysis of one of his unpublished works, a diary that narrates events that belong to the years 1596-1601. The author, a well-known writer within the field of early modern Catalan studies, designed his diary as a commentary on the most important events that took place in the city of Barcelona and the Principality of Catalonia. Vila used all his historiographic knowledge in the production of his diary and the result if a text based on the principle of truthfulness that makes use of his personal notes and documentary sources to support his assertions. The study of the sources and the diary provide us with a better understanding of the period and of an author somewhat underrated by previous scholars.