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I. D. Petrescu is an outstanding historian of the 19th century. As a participant in the great revolution of 1848, he was strongly influenced by Romantic historiography. After several decades of working as a teacher, he came to Târgoviște in 1868 and embarked on an extensive publishing activity in which his studies on the mediaeval period held the most important place. His preoccupations open up certain paths in the Romanian research work and, in this sense, we should mention the first writing dedicated to the reign of Radu the Great or the first monograph of the city of Târgoviște. In his books, the author complies with the scientific rigors of the time, using the most significant resources and studies. That is why many of I. D. Petrescu’s conclusions deserve a special analysis and great emphasis in the scientific field.