Dimitrie Cantemir THE HIEROGLYPHIC HISTORY
Romanian Cultural Institute New York program Romanian Fiction Then and Now TUE, March 8, 7:30 pm Dimitrie Cantemir THE HIEROGLYPHIC HISTORY (Istoria ieroglifica) Written in the early 1700's in Constantinople, THE HIEROGLYPHIC HISTORY is a dense allegorical novel describing the Byzantine struggle between two realms of power. Labyrinthine in structure, this baroque ...