Dimitrie Petrino (1838 (?)—April 29, 1878) was a

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ...

n-born

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n poet. Born in Rujnița, a village in the Bessarabia Governorate's Soroca County within the

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, his parents were Petre Petrino, a rural landowner, and his wife Eufrosina (''née'' Hurmuzachi). He studied at home under the guidance of a Nicolae Sbierea and perhaps of his uncles the

Hurmuzachi brothers The Hurmuzachi brothers, Alexandru (1823-1871), Constantin (1811-1869), Eudoxiu (1812-1874), Gheorghe (1817-1882), and Nicolae (1826-1909), were members of an old Hurmuzachi family of Romanian nobles in Austrian BukovinaChastain with an estate ...

. As a young man, he travelled to Italy, Austria and Germany, adopting somewhat of a literary culture, albeit not in organized fashion. Between 1864 and 1867, he was a military officer at

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in the Romanian Old Kingdom; after his wife's death, he again travelled abroad before settling in Czernowitz (''Cernăuți''), the capital of

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region in

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. Returning to Romania in 1875, Petrino settled at

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, where he became director of the Central Library. From 1876 to 1878, he was Andrei Vizanti's substitute as professor in the Romanian literature department of

Iași University The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mi ...

. In 1877, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent
at the Romanian Academy site His contributions appeared in ''

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'', '' Familia'' and ''Foaia Soțietății pentru literatura și cultura română în Bucovina''. His verses appeared in several volumes: ''Flori de mormânt'', 1867; ''Lumine și umbre'', 1870; ''Raul'', 1875; ''La gura sobei'', 1876 and ''Legenda Murului'', 1877. Although written in a pure and flowing language, they only manage to convey with difficulty the author's sentiments, however sincere, and to create the image of the satanic poet the reader feels he wishes to create. He died in

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.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 353. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrino, Dimitrie 1838 births 1878 deaths 19th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets People from Ocnița District Romanian librarians Romanian Land Forces officers Corresponding members of the Romanian Academy 19th-century male writers Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Romania