Înrâuriri din culturile orientale şi occidentale în opera lui Dimitrie Cantemir
Influences from Eastern and Western Cultures in Dimitrie Cantemir s Work

Summary/Abstract: Cantemir was one of the most outstanding personalities of the Romanian culture and a wonderful model for the future generations. His work represents a unique synthesis between the elements from the Eastern and Western cultures, without being tributary to one of them. The rationalist bent, the cult for the European Christian medieval values are perfectly tied to the flavour of Oriental stories and to the valuing of wisdom. Even the baroque feature of his work (and here we can mention the feeling of vanity, the melancholy or the prodigality of his text) appears as a genuine synthesis between the components of the European thinking and the Levantine sensibility.

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