Early in 1934, Iorga issued a condemnation of the Iron Guard, following the assassination of National Liberal Premier Ion G. Duca by a Legionary death squad. However, during the subsequent police round-ups of Guardist activists, Iorga intervened for the release of fascist philosopher Nae Ionescu, and still invited Guardist poet Radu Gyr to lecture at Vălenii. At the same time, he was again focusing his attention on the condemnation of modernists and the poetry of Arghezi, first with the overview "Istoria literaturii românești contemporane" ("History of Contemporary Romanian Literature"), then with his press polemics. Also in 1934, Iorga also published a book which coined his image of Romania's early modern culture—"Byzance après Byzance" ("Byzantium after Byzantium"), alongside the three-volume "Histoire de la vie byzantine" ("A History of Byzantine Life"). He followed up with a volume of memoirs "Orizonturile mele. O viață de om așa cum a fost" ("My Horizons. The Life of a Man as It Was"), while inaugurating his contribution to Romania's official cultural magazine, "Revista Fundațiilor Regale".