20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

156 Ilie Radnumber of pages featuring the chroniclers from Muntenia (Greceanu Radu,Radu Popescu, “The Unnamed Necrologist”/“Nenumitul necrologist”),followed by Ioan Vǎcǎrescu, “Rumanian poet” (Aron Pumnul often referredto the Romanian territory as Rumania), with 21 poems; D. Cantemir, witha fragment entitled The Antiquity of the Romanians in Dacia and theNobility of their Race (Vechietatea rumanilor den Dacia si nobilitateasemintiei lor), preceded by a broad presentation of the life and activity ofthis Moldavian prince. Further on, we come across Ioan Barac, Barbu ParisMumuleanu, and Petru Maior, this genuine “Moses of Rumania, who, withhis History of the Early Rumanians in Dacia, put an end to the Rumanians’ignorance regarding their outstanding origin”. Given the importance ofthis “Rumanian Moses”, Pumnul dedicates 35 pages to him. Other authors(Vasile Aron, Daniel Scavinschi, Antioh Cantemir, Vasile Fabian Bob andVasile Cârlova) are featured in presentations that vary from just a few linesto several pages, which reveals not only the absence of strict criteria in theselection of authors, but also the precarious nature of information sources.Another fact worth noting is the presentation of Metropolitan Dosoftei,to whom the author dedicates a paragraph entitled Some Forms of theRomanian Language from Trebnic and from the Passing of the Saints(Câteva forme ale limbii rumâne, den Trebnic şi den Petrecerea sântilor),where he points out, somewhat unexpectedly and without any comments,the following suffixes: -iune/ -ciune (buiguiciune, cumenecǎciune,curaţiciune, despǎrţiciune, dumnezǎiciune), -inţǎ (fericinţǎ, grijinţǎ,izbǎvinţǎ, îndulcinţǎ, închipuinţǎ), -urǎ (deschizaturǎ, încungiurǎturǎ,împinsǎturǎ, priviturǎ), -eţ/ -eaţǎ (lucrǎreţ, cugetǎreţ, vindecǎreaţǎ,cercǎreaţǎ) and -vǎr (stavǎr). Could these forms be an indirect responseaddressed to some uncomfortable opponent who contested his system ofRomanian word formation (“formaciune”), or was this a precautionarymeasure, in case he was going to be challenged on this subject?The fourth volume 15 , released in 1864, in an editorial formula similarto the second one, has two parts, with separate title pages and a new pageformat. The first part is dedicated to the seventh year and the second, to theeighth year of senior secondary education.A new feature, compared to the previous volumes, is The PreliminaryObservation (Obsǎrbǎciunea premergǎţivǎ), where Aron Pumnul makes15Rumanian Reader Featuring Rumanian Authors, Commissioned by the HighMinistry of Instruction, for Usage by Seventh Year Senior Secondary Students, by ArunePumnul, Professor of Rumanian Language and Literature at the Plinariu SecondaryCollege in Chernovtsy. 1864, Tome IV, Part I, Subsidised by the G.O. Religious Fund inBukovina. Vienna: C.R. Publisher of Educational Books.