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Diary for my daughter 23.11.2024 - Duiliu Zamfirescu

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I woke up today at 11. After I went with your grandfather to shopping, we had lunch out. We went to the shops and after we were coming home, watching the football games, making the dinner, washing and drying some clothes and now we are relaxing a bit. It was a sunny day but not warm outside today. It was just 10 degrees. From next week it will start raining. Tomorrow it will be another relaxing day. So.. let's go to your today story... Duiliu Zamfirescu Duiliu Zamfirescu (30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his Comăneștenilor literary cycle, comprising his novels Viața la țară [ro], Tănase Scatiu [ro], În război, Îndreptări, and Anna. Bi...

Diary for my daughter 22.11.2024 - N. Petrașcu

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well!  Tata is fine today! Today is a resting day. As i took your grandfather to work and after I was coming home, I had breakfast, made some tidying, washing the dishes and now I am watching a film. Yesterday evening I been to my Italian classes which is a nice and new experience and I like it. Later on I will go to pick up your grandfather and we go to do some shopping and after we will relax at home. So... let's go to your today story... N. Petrașcu Nicolae Petrovici (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e ˈpetrovitʃʲ]; December 5, 1859 – May 24, 1944), known as Nicolae Petrașcu (pronounced [peˈtraʃku, pəˈ-]) and commonly rendered as N. Petrașcu or Pĕtrașcu, was a Romanian journalist, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and memoirist. The author of monographs on major figures in Romanian literature, Petrașcu was originally affiliated with the conservative literary society Junimea, but did not embrace all its tenets. Like his ...

Diary for my daughter 21.11.2024 - Pantazi Ghica

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I woke up again to take your grandfather to work as it is starting to get cold here and on the weather, and they announced that it would be raining later on. It is sunny at the moment, but in the morning when I took your grandfather to work, it was cold and -1 degrees. I just finished my exercises, and now I am getting ready to do a shower, I will tidy up some things and after rest. So... let's go to your today story... Pantazi Ghica Pantazi Ghica (Romanian pronunciation: [panˈtazi ˈɡika]; also known under the pen names Tapazin, G. Pantazi, and Ghaki; 15 March 1831 – 17 July 1882) was a Wallachian, later Romanian politician and lawyer, also known as a dramatist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. A prominent representative of the liberal current, he was the younger brother and lifelong collaborator of Ion Ghica, who served as Prime Minister of the Romanian Kingdom in 1866-1867 and again i...

Diary for my daughter 20.11.2024 - Bonifaciu Florescu

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Hello, my beautiful daughter! Tata here! Hope you're well! Tata is fine today! I woke up at 6 today to take your grandfather to work as is raining, and he can't go with the scooter, and the car is at service. I did my exercises, eaten my breakfast, and now I am resting. It is a cloudy day here now, but today, it will be 14 degrees. I watched the football games last night and after watching some films. Later on today, I will go to pick up your grandfather from work and after relax. So... let's go to your today story... Bonifaciu Florescu Bonifaciu Florescu (first name also Boniface, Bonifacio, Bonifati, last name also Floresco; born Bonifacius Florescu; May 17, 1848 – December 18, 1899) was a Romanian polygraph, the illegitimate son of writer-revolutionary Nicolae Bălcescu. Born secretly outside his parents' native Wallachia, at Pest, he was taken by his aristocratic mother in France, growing up as an erudite Francophone and Francophile. Florescu graduated from the Lycée...