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[[Image:Dimitrie_cantemir.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Dimitrie Cantemir, from the first edition of ''Descriptio Moldaviae'', 1716.]]
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'''Dimitrie Cantemir''' (1673–1723) was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March–April 1693 and in 1710–1711). He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer.
 
'''Dimitrie Cantemir''' (1673–1723) was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March–April 1693 and in 1710–1711). He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer.
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
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* ''Divanul sau Gâlceava Înțeleptului cu lumea sau Giudețul sufletului cu trupul'' [The Divan or The Wise Man's Parley with the World or The Judgement of the Soul with the Body], Iași, 1698. [http://cantemir.asm.md/lucrari1] {{ro}}/{{gr}}
 
* ''Divanul sau Gâlceava Înțeleptului cu lumea sau Giudețul sufletului cu trupul'' [The Divan or The Wise Man's Parley with the World or The Judgement of the Soul with the Body], Iași, 1698. [http://cantemir.asm.md/lucrari1] {{ro}}/{{gr}}
  

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Portrait of Cantemir, from Descriptio Moldaviae, 1716.

Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723) was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March–April 1693 and in 1710–1711). He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer.

Works

Scholarly books
  • Divanul sau Gâlceava Înțeleptului cu lumea sau Giudețul sufletului cu trupul [The Divan or The Wise Man's Parley with the World or The Judgement of the Soul with the Body], Iași, 1698. [1] (Romanian)/(Greek)
  • Sacrosantae scientiae indepingibilis imago [Imaginea de nedescris a ştiinţei sacre; The Undepictable Image of Sacred Science], Constantinople, 1700-1704. (Latin) [2]
    • Metafizica, trans. Nicodim Locusteanu, Bucharest: Ancora, 1928. (Romanian)
  • Compendiolum universae logices institutionis [Compendiu al sistemului logicii universale], 1700-04. (Latin)
  • Tarifu ilmil musiki ala vêgni maksus [Kitâbu ilm’i musikî ala vêghi maksus; Tarifu ilm’i musikî ala vêghi kurufat; Explicarea muzicii teoretice pe scurt], 1700-04. (Turkish)
  • Descriptio Moldaviae, 1714. (Latin)
    • Descrierea Moldovei, 1st edition, Iaşi, 1825. (Romanian)
    • Descrierea Moldovei, Bucharest: Editura librăriei Leon Alcalay, 1909. (Romanian)
    • Descrierea Moldovei, trans. Gh. Adamescu, Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 1942. (Romanian)
    • Descrierea Moldovei, trans. Petre Pandrea, Bucharest: B.P.T., 1956; repr., Chișinău: Litera, 1998, 256 pp. [3] (Romanian)
Novels
  • Historia Hieroglyphica, 1704. (Romanian)
Colected works
  • Operele Principelui Demetriŭ Cantemirŭ [Operele principelui Demetriu Cantemiru], printed by Societatea Academică Romănă, Bucharest: F. Göbl, 1870ff.
  • Opere, eds. P.P. Panaitescu and I. Verdeş, 3 vols., Bucharest: Editura pentru Literatură, 1965.
  • Opere complete, eds. Virgil Cândea, 9 vols., Bucharest: Editura Academiei R.S.R., 1973-1983.
  • Opere, eds. Virgil Cândea, Stela Toma and Nicolae Stoicescu, Bucharest, 2003ff.
Bibliography

Literature

  • I. Minea, Despre Dimitrie Cantemir omul, scriitorul, domnitorul, Iași, 1924.
  • Scarlat Calimachi, Demetre Cantemir, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1966.
  • Silvestru Boatcă, Dimitrie Cantemir, Bucharest: Editura Recif, 1995.
  • Adriana Babeți, Bătăliile pierdute: Dimitrie Cantemir: Strategii de lectură, Oradea: Imprimeria de Vest; Timișoara: Amarcord, 1998, 300 pp.
  • in Rens Bod, A New History of the Humanities, Oxford University Press, 2013, p 209.

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