Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio 1876, he entered the diplomatic field, serving as "chargé d'affaires" at Constantinople, Vienna and Athens. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1893, and was vice president of its literary section. He belonged to "Junimea" society until 1895. His published debut came about in 1870 in "Foaia Societății "Românismul”", with a selection of "doina" lyrics. He also contributed to "Convorbiri Literare" and "Literatură și artă română" magazines, as well as to "Voința națională" and "România Liberă" newspapers. He translated Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" and odes, epodes, "Epistles", the two "Satires" and "Ars Poetica" by Horace, earning
Horace borrowed from Archaic Greece, employing hexameters in his "Satires" and "Epistles", and iambs in his "Epodes", all of which were relatively easy to adapt into Latin forms. His "Odes" featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for Latin structure and syntax. Despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. He was influenced in particular by Hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modeled in the work of Callimachus. In modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience