Living in poor conditions (as reported by visiting scholar Teohari Antonescu), the four-year engagement of his scholarship still applicable, Nicolae Iorga decided to spend his remaining time abroad, researching more city archives in Germany (Munich), Austria (Innsbruck) and Italy (Florence, Milan, Naples, Rome, Venice etc.). In this instance, his primordial focus was on historical figures from his Romanian homeland, the defunct Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia: the Moldavian Prince Peter the Lame, his son Ștefăniță, and Romania's national hero, the Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave. He also met, befriended and often collaborated with fellow historians from European countries other than Romania: the editors of "Revue de l'Orient Latin", who first published studies Iorga later grouped in the six volumes of "Notes et extraits" ("Notices and Excerpts") and Frantz Funck-Brentano, who enlisted his parallel contribution for "Revue Critique". Iorga's articles were also featured in two magazines for ethnic Romanian communities in Austria-Hungary: "Familia" and "Vatra".