The first of his lectures came later that year as personal insight on the historical method, "Despre concepția actuală a istoriei și geneza ei" ("On the Present-day Concept of History and Its Genesis"). He was again out of the country in 1895, visiting the Netherlands and, again, Italy, in search of documents, publishing the first section of his extended historical records' collection "Acte și fragmente cu privire la istoria românilor" ("Acts and Excerpts Regarding the History of Romanians"), his Romanian Atheneum conference on Michael the Brave's rivalry with "condottiero" Giorgio Basta, and his debut in travel literature ("Amintiri din Italia", "Recollections from Italy"). The next year came Iorga's official appointment as curator and publisher of the Hurmuzachi brothers collection of historical documents, the position being granted to him by the Romanian Academy. The appointment, first proposed to the institution by Xenopol, overlapped with disputes over the Hurmuzachi inheritance, and came only after Iorga's formal pledge that he would renounce all potential copyrights resulting from his contribution. He also published the second part of "Acte și fragmente" and the printed rendition of the de Mézières study ("Philippe de Mézières, 1337–1405"). Following an October 1895 reexamination, he was granted full professorship with a 9.19 average.