Shortly before his death in June 1902, Samuel Butler expressed the desire to donate to his "dear Trapani" the manuscript of his book "The Authoress of the Odyssey" acknowledging that the city was the birthplace of the immortal poem, he commissioned of this delivery his closest collaborator, Henry Festing Jones, who gave ample description in his diary entitled "Journey to Sicily in the footsteps of Butler". The manuscript has been in the possession of the Fardelliana library in Trapani for over a century, and it is from this place that the journey / story begins. The story develops through two parallel levels, that of the places and that of the witnesses that Butler directly and indirectly engraved in the memory of the people who got involved in various ways by "The authoress of the Odyssey"
