Lettre Internationale nr. 104 / winter 2017-2018
To our readers In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, there is a marginal, but highly amusing, character, the diplomat Bilibin. He is admired for his wit and feared for his sarcasm. He gives prince Andrew a mischievous account of the 1807 campaign, marked by the battles
Lettre Internationale no. 99 / autumn 2016
To our readers Letizia Battaglia, aged 80, still tries to improve the world for the benefit of the new generations. She has always been a rebel, rejecting the restrictions of a traditional marriage and striving for self development. She became a
Lettre Internationale - no 98 / summer 2016
To our readers Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne
Dan Cioca - a new album edited by the Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House
Bilingual edition (Romanian-English) Foreword by Adrian-Silvan Ionescu Graphic and cover design: Dan Glăvan Texts by: Adrian-silvan Ionescu, Iolanda Malamen, Cătălin Davidescu, Dan Grigorescu, Titus Mocanu, Grigore Arbore, Petru Comarnescu, Vito Grasso, I. D. Sârbu,
To our readers
Sometimes it is more difficult to win the peace than to win the war. This is what the historian Şerban Pavelescu shows by analyzing “The Peaces of the Greater Romania”. Romania’s status at the Peace Conference was ambiguous, because the separate peace concluded
Lettre Internationale - no 98 / summer 2016
To our readers Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne
Saints' Street No. 8
I have never associated bohemia with physical misery. In my opinion poverty and lack of comfort don't necessarily have physiological consequences. Bohemia is an act one takes responsibility for as long as it doesn't diminish the dignity of the individual. For
The Architect
Emil Popescu was an architect. His specialty was the oil factories and we can say, without any exaggeration, that wherever in the country an oil factory had been built in the last five or six years, one could easily tell it was the work of architect Popescu's skilled
Dimitrie Cuclin
COMPOSER, MUSICOLOGIST, WRITER, FOLKLORIST, INSTRUMENTALIST, ESTHETICIAN, PROFESSOR, BYZANTINOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER Born in Galatzi (24 March 1885), he began his musical studies with his father, the composer and professor Constantin Cuclin, continued at the Bucharest Conservatoire