10 Published BooksIon Budai-Deleanu
Ion Budai-Deleanu was a Romanian scholar and poet, born in Transylvania.
He finished an epic poem, entitled Țiganiada ("Gypsy Epic"), about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler of Wallachia.
He promoted the purification of the Romanian language from loanwords, proposing that only borrowings from Italian and French should be permitted. He also strove for the replacement of the Cyrillic script with the Latin alphabet.
