20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

878 Ana Selejana head: ‟Maybe I did not want anything else than die faster among anxietyand inner pain which had been brought to the backbone like a slow poisonby my humanistic education”.From the very beginning the wonder and the fascination were the twomoods which filled his existence alternately. Thus, Vintilă Horia realisesthe most mythical face of the oriental Latinity and thus of the Romanianspecific through Matteo Muriano’s eyes.Although Stephan the Great’s Moldavia is placed at the margins ofEurope, it is not out of the civilisation and of the political games anymore.Moreover it is a powerful political and European conspiring centre becausethere are also competent messengers, experts in diplomacy (Ion Tamblac,Luca Arbore) who leave from Suceava towards Vienna, Moscow, Venice,and there are all sorts of emissaries who arrive in Suceava and MatteoMuriano is also familiar with the political conspiracy against Turkey led byLorenzo Magnificul towhich the Voivode of Moldavia took part.The superiority of Moldavia confronted by the Centre of Europe isgiven like in the other two novels God was born in exile and The Knight ofResignation, by the religious sphere, in this case the natural and authenticorthodoxy of the dwellers of this space, always threatened by invaders:Muriano will recover from his identity crisis and the conscious crisis notthrough his converting to Christianity but through his coming back toChristianity, through rediscovering the Christian values during the banquetof ideas with Daniil the Anchorite and Voivode Stephan.‟My temporal passing from that platonic illusion which built my life inVenice to the Voronet arrow which raised to the sky was going to becomemy initiating itinerary”.As they are theological persons ready to receive God all Vintilă Horia’scharacters who are part of this imitatio Christi phenomenon (Ovid, RaduNegru, Muriano) have a guide that accompany them in their initiatingitinerary, in knowing and recovering the sacred dimension. Like Dante hadhad Beatrice and Ovid Dochia, the young Getae servant, mysterious butalso vigilant, who was going to show him all the secrets of these places,favouring his meeting with the Dacian priest – one of the first messengersof Christianity and who was also witness at Jesus’s birth next to the Magi.In the end Ovid will be also ready to receive the new religion, the NewMessiah, the Redeemer. Thus, he is a converted as many other Romans:Honorius married in secrecy with Dochia the centurion Comozous, the onewho accompany Ovid on the holy mountain in order to meet the priest; theGreek philosopher Sedida is also a converted like the doctor Teodor – one