El Muladí Hassan Aga (Azan Aga) y su gobierno en Argel. La consolidación de un mito mediterráneo

Abstract

This work tries to describe graphically the consolidation of a social myth in the unsettled Mediterranean of the 16th century, through a personage: the Spanish convert to Islam Hassan Aga (Azan Aga), the Sardinian renegade who succeeded Hayreddin Barbarrosa at the helms of Algiers from 1533 till his death ten years later. This was a period of intense activity, with the climax that came with the expedition of Charles to Algiers in 1541, whose spectacular defeat can be considered as the principal nucleus of the myth of this popular personage who as a Sardinian slave came to defeat the Emperor. A myth of social ascension with maquiavelical profiles of a new prince of the frontiers.