Iuliu Cezar Săvescu (September 22, 1866 – March 9, 1903) was a

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n poet.

Biography

Born in

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to the civil servant Eulampiu Săvescu and his wife Fania, he attended primary school and the first years of high school in his native city. He then continued his studies at

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's Saint Sava High School, where his teacher Bonifaciu Florescu introduced him to Alexandru Macedonski's circle. Thanks to the latter's efforts, he secured a post as proofreader at ''

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''. He led an increasingly dissolute Bohemian lifestyle. It is not known if and when he completed high school; according to some sources, he may have audited classes at the

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's literature faculty, without graduating. It is also unknown when he made his debut; this may have taken place in 1888 in ''Peleșul'' magazine, with the poem "Pe când cerul vieței mele". He was an editor at ''Duminica'' magazine in 1890, and also published in ''Liga literară'' (among other writings, he submitted translations of

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), ''Literatorul'', ''Convorbiri literare'', ''Tribuna familiei'', ''Ilustrațiunea română'', ''Fântâna Blanduziei'', ''Revista orientală'', ''Foaia pentru toți'', ''

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'' and ''Liberalul''. A

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, he collected part of his verses into a modest little book, self-published in a tiny print run, the 1901 ''Poezii''. In 1926, Nicolae Davidescu prefaced and published ''Poezii. Volum unic''. The latter also included part of Săvescu's poetic output in the 1943 anthology ''Din poezia noastră parnasiană'', which revived him in critical attention. He also wrote a few fantasy prose works, as well as short essays and articles. He translated

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, a fragment of

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's ''Inferno'', Giosuè Carducci and Poe (including "

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"). He was familiar with classic Albanian literature, and translated Giuseppe Schirò's prose poem ''Mili e Haidhia''. In ''Liga literară'' in 1895, he published an unfinished free translation of

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' ''

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''.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 536. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Savescu, Iuliu Cezar 1866 births 1903 deaths People from Brăila Romanian poets Symbolist poets Romanian magazine editors 19th-century Romanian poets 19th-century Romanian translators Translators of Edgar Allan Poe 19th-century Romanian essayists People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia