O tiparitură din Anvers privitoare la evenimente din domnia lui Gaspar Grațiani (1620)
An Antwerp Print Regarding some Events from Gaspar Grațiani’s Reign (1620)

Summary/Abstract: It is about a narration published in an Antwerp gazette on the 12th of December 1620, that is less than three months since the tragic events that took place in the Moldavia of the year 1620. It is not highly important for the nowadays historians, but it is interesting for the perception manner of the Romanian Countries in a relatively distant space such as that of the Low Countries, of that part remaining in the sphere of the Spanish kingdom. The area is preponderantly Catholic which is rather important for the appreciation of the concerned publication. The text was identified at the British Library by Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, and the translation from Dutch into Romanian was done by Petru Haivei (Bucharest). The text is accompanied by our own historical comments, meant to establish the documentary value of the narration. What strikes us about the Flemish text is the amazing combination of extremely well documented news, some of them even secret, and the phantasmagoric ones, coming right after the capturing (killing?) of the Turkish Kapucu and, implicitly, the starting of the unstoppable conflict with the Turks. Hypothetically, we can indicate Montalbani as the initial source of information, who was Gratiani’s confident as well as a Bolognese spy, a Venetian mercenary, a true adventurous character, typical for the 17th century.

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