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MIHAI EMINESCU • Chronology / Life, Creation, Cultural Context

 
• August. The poet is at Liman (near Odessa), a hospital where he hopes to solve some of his health problems. • September, 1. Convorbiri literare publishes Maiorescu's study Comediile d-lui Caragiale (The comedies of Caragiale). • Issuing of the second edition of Poesii. • Death of the poet Grigore Alexandrescu (b. 1810). • 1885-1888. The Palace of the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest is being built according to the plans of the French architect Albert Galleron. • Between 1885 and 1890, issuing, in Venice, of Il libro dell'amore, an anthology of universal poetry, translated and edited by M. A. Canini – an admirer of Romanian culture and civilization. Volume II (1887) and volume III (1888) will include three of Eminescu's poems: Dorinta (Longing), and sonnets Sunt ani la mijloc (It’s many years) and Cβnd ξnsuşi glasul … (When mute remains the very voice of thought...). • 1886, January 1. In the yearly Albume of the newspaper Epoca (The Epoch), a fragment of Eminescu's poem Scrisoarea V (The Fifth Epistle) is included under the title Dalila (Delilah). • March, 15. In the Literary Albume edited by Unirea (The Union) Students Society, the poem Nu mă-ntelegi (You don't understand me). • Increasingly marked by his disease, Eminescu becomes more and more neglectful of his duties at the Library and, in spite of the constant surveillance of his friends, he lives an ill-regulated life. • November. Serious recurrence of the poet's malady. Until April 1887, he'll be shut up in the lunatic asylum of the Neamt Monastery. • Between 1886 and 1889 B.P. Hasdeu publishes volumes I-IV of Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae. • 1887, February 1. In Convorbiri literare, De ce nu-mi vii (Why don't you come to me). • December, 1. Convorbiri literare publishes the poem La steaua (Up to the star). • April. Getting well again, Eminescu leaves the asylum, yet without returning to Jassy. He retires at Botosani, where he'll be taken care of by his sister Harieta. • Maiorescu continues to send him the financial contributions collected in Bucharest. • May-June. Eminescu's malady is advancing irreversibly. • July, 1. Convorbiri literare publishes the poem Kamadeva. • July, 14. A medical consultation in Jassy decides sending of Eminescu to Vienna and Halle for a serious treatment. • In September he'll return to Botosani, yet without any improvement of his health condition. • October. Asked by a group of pupils from the Matei Basarab Lyceum – who intended to create a literary circle bearing the poet's name – Eminescu takes a photo in the studio of Jean Bieling in Botosani.This will be the last photo of him. • Veronica Micle moves from Jassy to Bucharest. This same year, she'll publish her volume of poems Poesii. • Eminescu asks Titu Maiorescu to send his manuscripts to Botosani. Knowing how seriously ill the poet was, and consequently unable to edit himself the third edition of his poems, the critic decides to hold the manuscripts in Bucharest. [next]

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