#Mihai Eminescu

This article analyses the role of punctuation in determining the meaning of key passages in Eminescu’s posthumous poetry, drawing on manuscripts, publications in Convorbiri literare, the Almanahul România Jună and the Maiorescu editions. The cases discussed — the comma in ‘Rugăciunea unui dac’, the hapax ‘nemurie’ in ‘Luceafărul’ and the lunar passage in ‘Satira IV’ — demonstrate how tacit changes to punctuation have distorted Eminescu’s cosmology and poetic logic.

The process of Bessarabia’s union with Romania between 1917 and 1918 is reconstructed in three successive stages: the proclamation of autonomy and the establishment of the Sfatul Țării, the declaration of independence of the Moldovan Democratic Republic, and the vote on 27 March 1918, when 86 out of 125 deputies voted in favour of union. The article highlights the role of figures such as Ion Inculeț, Pantelimon Halippa and Onisifor Ghibu, documents the Soviet reaction to the deputies of the Sfatul Țării, and argues for the democratic and ethnographic legitimacy of the act of union.

The study investigates whether Mihai Eminescu may have been familiar with Antim Ivireanul’s Didahii, tracing the history of the manuscript copies of this posthumous work and the poet’s relationship with documentary sources such as Aron Pumnul’s library, Timotei Cipariu’s Crestomația, and his collaboration with Moses Gaster. On the basis of linguistic and stylistic analogies identified in Eminescu’s poetic and journalistic texts, the author proposes that Eminescu may have read fragments of at least five of Antim’s Didachia from manuscript miscellanies, drawing on expressive passages in his own work.