Las peregrinaciones literarias de Pedro Cubero: plagios e imagen de autor

The apostolic missionary Pedro Cubero (c. 1645-c. 1701) is well known for his journey around the globe by heading East. Cubero exploited this journey in a significant number of publications, including his Peregrinación del mundo (1682). Cubero also expanded his literary career with other subjects unrelated to his travels in books that combine historical and geographical content. However, these works are notable for their tendency toward literary theft. Cubero used the knowledge of several unpublished or barely-known texts to increase his written output with several counterfeit volumes. In this paper I intend to analyze one of these plagiarisms committed by Cubero in a specific work: Descripción general del mundo (1697). This text is an irregular mixture of topographical and chronological information due to the use and abuse of sources by the apostolic missionary. In short, I seek to trace Cubero's different strategies to appropriate other people's texts and, above all, to try to mask this practice. Finally, I will try to explain Cubero's plagiarism in relation to his cultural milieu.