Heinrich Schliemann a Tunisi e Cartagine. I diari

Abstract

In 1864 Heinrich Schliemann, the future discoverer of Troy, spent six days in Tunis. He referres about this trip in his diaries, written partly in Italian and partly in Arabic, translated and published here for the first time. He had the opportunity to speak with the Prime Minister Khaznadar and to see in the Bardo Palace the sovereign Sadok Bey in his function as judge of peace. He also went to Carthage, visiting the Byrsa hill, the port, the coastal district of Magon, the amphitheater and the cisterns of la M’alga and Dar Saniat, finally he was able to buy cheaply a stone inscription from some excavators.