UchalÓ: el Calabrés Tiñoso, o el mito del corsario muladÓ en la frontera

Year 2015, Volume: 46 Issue: 46, 324 - 326, 10.08.2015

Emrah Safa Gürkan

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.582829

Abstract

Due to the dearth of personal narratJves and the lack of prJntJng press Jn the Ottoman EmpJre, Jt Js extremely dJffJcult to reconstruct the lJves of Ottoman grandees. EmJlJo Sola’s UchalÓ Js extremely valuable Jn thJs regard, because Jt provJdes mJnute detaJls on the lJfe of enJgmatJc Ottoman Grand AdmJral, Uluc AlJ, a.k.a. DJonJsJo Galea, a CalabrJan renegade whose unfortunate capture by corsaJrs when he was a young boy paved the way for an exceptJonal success story Jn MedJterranean borderlands. QuJckly rJsJng through corsaJr ranks, thJs son of a poor fJsherman would fJrst be Governor-General of TrJpolJtanJa, then of AlgerJa, reachJng the zenJth of Ottoman naval establJshment wJth hJs appoJntment as the
Kapudan Paůa Jn 1572.

Keywords

UchalÓ, Calabrés, Tiñoso

Emilio Sola Castano, Uchali: el Calabres Tinoso, o el mito del corsario muladi en la frontera

Abstract

Due to the dearth of personal narratJves and the lack of prJntJng press Jn the
Ottoman EmpJre, Jt Js extremely dJffJcult to reconstruct the lJves of Ottoman
grandees. EmJlJo Sola’s UchalÓ Js extremely valuable Jn thJs regard, because Jt
provJdes mJnute detaJls on the lJfe of enJgmatJc Ottoman Grand AdmJral, Uluc
AlJ, a.k.a. DJonJsJo Galea, a CalabrJan renegade whose unfortunate capture by
corsaJrs when he was a young boy paved the way for an exceptJonal success story
Jn MedJterranean borderlands. QuJckly rJsJng through corsaJr ranks, thJs son of a
poor fJsherman would fJrst be Governor-General of TrJpolJtanJa, then of AlgerJa,
reachJng the zenJth of Ottoman naval establJshment wJth hJs appoJntment as the
Kapudan Paůa Jn 1572.

Keywords

Emilio, sola, Castaño

References

• Emilio Sola Castaño, UchalÓ: el Calabrés Tiñoso, o el mito del corsario muladÓ en la frontera, Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2011, 512 pp., ISBN 978-847-2905-19-1