The life of Constantin Cantemir by Dimitrie Cantemir (350 years from the birth of the humanist writer)

The writer Dimitrie Cantemir is the first multilateral personality of modern Romanian culture and literature, a world-renowned encyclopedic personality, the last great humanist, the author of the most important Romanian literary writing. The article is a multi-aspect analysis of the work Viaţa lui Constantin Cantemir by Dimitrie Cantemir. The writer's work is imposed by its documentary, cognitive side, the author insisting on the description and reconstruction of events; the memorialistic character; ways of artistic painting (familiar details, decorative paintings, ceremonial indications, stories and anecdotes interspersed in the body of the work, portraits, direct and indirect narration, etc.) are subject to the flow of memory. Constantin Cantemir's life is not without certain literary qualities and narrative skills.