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europe and the east, with the romanians’ expenses. on the 6 th of March
1689, patriarch Dositei informed his peer Adrian of Moscow that he will
send him books printed in iaşi. dositei Notara also donated The Book of
Conciliation and The Book of Love (iaşi, 1698) to the church of the Greek
community in Sibiu. Anghel Summakios from zante, speaking about his
relationship with the same patriarch, mentioned on the 14 th of April 1708
that he received one copy of all the books printed in Iasi during his time 22 .
even though the printing production did not surpass the limits
established by the orthodox Church, among the works printed in the
workshop from Saint Sava monastery there was also Divan or the Quarrel
of the Wise Man with the World by Dimitrie Cantemir, the enlighted spirit
of his time. the beginning of the 18 th century in Moldavia can be described
from the cultural point of view as an environment of erudition and learning
created by the princely Academy of Iasi and the great number of schools
in the country. From a social and economic point of view, the romanian
society was engaged in an effort to eliminate some outdated structures and to
introduce new ones. Without exception, the copy editor was a trained person
in any printing house and he corrected the manuscript, not only the printed
book. ieremiaş cacavela made the corrections for the book Volume of Love
for the Latins, printed in iaşi, in Greek, during the reign of Prince Antioh
Cantemir and he wrote About the differences between the two Churches.
About Eucharist. Ieremia Cacavela had studied theology, philosophy and
rhetoric in leipzig and Vienna, he knew the main languages of the time:
old Greek, latin, hebrew and Italian so he considered himself the right
person to bear the title of “Greek teacher of the eastern Church”, he was
also the teacher of Constantin Cantemir’s sons 23 .
the metropolitans, patriarchs, bishops, as well as the abbots of the
monasteries where the printing presses were in use, benefited from the
books that were printed there. even more, the Metropolitans could print
a supplementary number of copies for themselves, if they paid for the
necessary paper. Metropolitan Sava, during whose time the book Divan or
the Quarrel of the Wise Man with the World (iaşi, 1698) was printed, gave
it right in the year of the printing to putna monastery, where he took the
veil 24 .
22 NăsTurEl, Petre s., Vechi tipărituri româneşti în Biblioteca Patriarhiei din
Alexandria⁄Romanian Old prints in Patriarchate of Alexandria Library, in “ortodoxia”,
year IV (1952), no. 3-4, p. 520; hurMuzAChI – IorGA, Studii şi documente/Studies
and Documents, vol. xIV, part I, p. 409.
23 sTăNiloAE, d., Dosoftei Patriarch of Jerusalem, p. 34-36.
24 iliEŞ, Aurora, AdAM, Marieta, Date noi despre circulaţia şi cititorii operei