BOLINTINEANU, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF “CONTEMPORARY PARNASSUS”
BOLINTINEANU, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF “CONTEMPORARY PARNASSUS”

Summary/Abstract: Undoubtedly involved in the forty-eighters movement, Bolintineanu, under the influence of “contemporary Parnassus” cultivates a type of poetry included in the neo-Latin current, mostly French. The reforming position displayed by Bolintineanu in literature also has reverberations in terms of doctrine and politics, where he pleads for new laws to ensure and maintain freedom. Under these circumstances, he takes part at Bucharest to the act of “The Unification of Romanian Principalities”, and possibly from the reasons he accepts to manage the newspaper “Dâmboviţa” which he makes available to the ideal of unity. The desire to change the society’s mentality is so big that Bolintineanu prefers to occupy a diplomatic position of “minister without clothes”, rather than holding respectable functions, ridiculizing the race for jobbery, “the lack of patriotism characteristic to both the large and small landlords”, but also to “the rising bourgeoisie”. The novel “Willing fools” comes to support the premises of national revival expressed by Bolintineanu which, in order to reach his belief resorts to historical evocations and Masonic revelations with actors/characters with conspiratorial names involved in a fierce debate on a “national and democratic revolution”, conclusions approaching: “the country’s autonomy, equality of all Romanians before the law”. With this esoteric manual, Bolintineanu receives the third rank in the lodge “Star of Danube” in Bucharest, which he leaves in 1864 to become member of the “Brotherhood Lodge”.

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