THE PORTRAIT OF LEUCAIDA IN ASACHI’S VISION
THE PORTRAIT OF LEUCAIDA IN ASACHI’S VISION

Summary/Abstract: The epic volume, Leucaida is built from over thirty sonnets dedicated to Asachi Bianca Milesi. The sentimental dimension between Bianca Milesi (Leuca) and Asachi (Alviro Corintio-Dacico) is described in all the songs that make up Leucaida. Laura of Petrarca, Beatrice of Dante or the brown lady of Sakespeare is called Arcadian Leuca de Asachi, and the love for her is sung in verses flooded by the auroral air of Italian origin, giving Romanian literature a new lexical, thematic, imagistic and prosodic beginning. Asachi's sonnets are highlighted in Romanian literature by spiritualizing love, overcoming the common, prosaic by fixing an astral destiny to his beloved, continuing the idea of Dante and Petrarca who saw an angel in a woman in a spiritualized archive. Although Asachi’s Leucaids in italic style are not entirely perfect, they established themselves as a founding act, constituting a starting point for great poets such as Eminescu and Alecsandri. Without requiring the subject to be exhausted, the work aims to outline the portrait of Asachi’s Leucaida that has imprinted bright traces in Romanian and Italian literature. Activating in a period full of convulsions, Gheorghe Asachi must be appreciated in the historical context of the era in which he performed, after the real contributions that lasted through time and gave the start of modern literature in his homeland, giving him the well-deserved place in the most valuable writer of his time.

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