Veronica Micle

Veronica Micle (born Ana Câmpeanu; 22 April 1850 – 3 August 1889) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian poet, whose work was influenced by Romanticism. She is best known for her love affair with the poet Mihai Eminescu, one of the most important Romanian writers.

Biography Born in Naszód, Kingdom of Hungary (now Năsăud, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania), Micle was the second child of the shoemaker Ilie Câmpeanu and his wife Ana. She was born to him posthumously: Ilie died in 1849, taking two bullets to the chest while fighting under Avram Iancu against the Hungarian revolutionaries. Her mother went to Moldavia, settling in Târgu Neamț in 1850, then to Roman, and finally in Iași in 1853.

Ana went to primary school (during which time she began using the name Veronica) and to the Iași Central School for Girls, which she graduated in June 1863. and Valeria, an opera singer who used the name Hilda professionally. The second stands beside her memorial house in Târgu Neamț, designed by Damian Popa in 1998. The third, by Veaceslav Jiglițchi, was unveiled in Chișinău in 2021.

Literary activity Micle made her publishing debut in Noul Curier Român (NCR) in 1872, with two romantic sketches published under the pen-name Corina. She published her poems, influenced by Eminescu, in Columna Lui Traian in 1874 and in Convorbiri Literare the following year. She also contributed to Familia (from 1879), Revista Nouă and Revista Literară.

Additionally, a volume containing 93 of Eminescu's letters to Micle and 15 of her replies was published in 2000.

Works Rendez-vous, NCR, I, 1872 Plimbarea de mai în Iași, NCR, I, 1872 Poezii, Bucharest, Halman, 1887 Poezii, Prof. I. S. Mugur, Iași, Șaraga, 1909 Dragoste și Poezie, Bucharest, Socec, Prof. Octav Minar. Translations from Lamartine and Gautier, in Poesii, Bucharest, Halman.