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
Scottish literature a prolific poet. He wrote elegiac narratives, romances and satires. George Buchanan (1506–82) had a major influence as a Latin poet, founding a tradition of neo-Latin poetry that would continue in to the seventeenth century. Contributors to this tradition included royal secretary John Maitland (1537–95), reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622), John Johnston (1570?–1611) and David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629). From the 1550s, in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542–67) and the minority of her son James VI (r. 1567–1625), cultural pursuits were limited by the lack of a royal court and by political turmoil. The Kirk, heavily influenced