Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu (Romanian pronunciation: Ottoman Turkish.
Biography
Văcărescu wrote one of the first printed books on
prosody; it was titled Observaţii sau băgări de seamă asupra regulilor şi orânduielilor gramaticii româneşti ("Observations or Reckonings on the Rules and Dispositions of Romanian Grammar"). He also completed a work on Greek grammar
(Gramatica greacă completă).
Văcărescu's lyrical works take inspiration from both
Ottoman Emperors
").
On several occasions, Ienăchiţă Văcărescu served Wallachia as a
Alexander Ypsilantis to return after their 1782 flight to Vienna; he met and conversed with Emperor Joseph II, and also befriended the French ambassador, Baron de Breteuil. His impressive knowledge of Italian was the subject of a 1929 study by historian Nicolae Iorga
, De unde a învăţat italieneşte Ienăchiţă Văcărescu ("Where Has Ienăchiţă Văcărescu Learned His Italian From?").
References
Romanian Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Neagu Djuvara, Între Orient şi Occident. Ţările române la începutul epocii moderne, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995, p. 345
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