The first great literary accomplishment of Targoviste, "The teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Teodosie", represents a romanian compilation of the parenetic byzantine literature, contemporaneous with the Renaissance, which can be put side by side with Machiavelli's "The prince".

The original manuscript of "The life of Saint Nifon" by Gavriil Preotul (Gabriel The Priest) was given for maintenance to the library of Targoviste's Mitropolia (a religious structure). Across the religious aspect, shades of the beginnings in the romanian historiography come through. The humanistic appetencies to the Renaissance, to whom he owes the portrayals of Neagoe Basarab and his family within the iconography of that time, determined the waivode's biography elements, hence of historiography, a proof of the complexity of the cultural phenomenon in that age.

Petru Cercel has given to the romanian literature only one poem and the vanity of a waivode-poet, a waivode-bookman on the throne of the Basarab dynasty.

The panels resurrect the age of Mihai Viteazul (Michael The Brave) under the memory of a streamer from Manastirea Dealu. In his court, the diplomats were devoted to the litarary practice. Here, in Targoviste, Teodosie Rudeanul Logofatul wrote a chronicle which was lost. Balthazar Walther made an original version of this chronicle - "The short and true description of the actions accomplished by Ioan Mihai, the ruler of The Romanian Country, the overglowing, the overpraised and the overvaliant... " (Gorliz 1599)

In front of the royal court from Targoviste, thus giving it a literary glow, Balthazar Walther reads in latin two poems, an epigram (in the ancient meaning of dedication on an art item) to the waivode's portrait and an elegy (in the meaning derived from the ancient lyrical piece expressing the admiration and praise) "at the birth celebration of the lord with the best ancestry and distinguished character... the royal offspring, Petrascu" (29 of June 1597). The spirit of the Renaissance humanism was irrupting in Targoviste as these latin literary practice were cultivating the genres of the Antiquity .

"Un chip de print, dentaiu, cu mandra lui vartute
In pieptu-i de stejar; fac voditura voao, uite,
In stare nci pensula zugravului Apellis nu-i,
Nici Apollo sa prinza in zaoa stihului.
El fruntea isi impinge spre barbarul taram,
E zidul fara frica al gintei crestine de la Ram,
Razbunatoriu, o, urias de inimi, dar cu ostire mica,
Cu manul tare, prin moarte tot daspica.
O, varhure, noi te rugam sub razbitoriu-ti nume
Ne apara, viteze, de arme, cruzimi, inselaciune,
O, doamne peasna de beseareci, la tine-n stralucire
Si tie-ti place tanta ce vrea cu mantuire."

The treasurer of Mihai Viteazul (Michael The Brave), Stavrinos, wrote in greek in the Bistrita fortress the poem "The braveries of the overdevout and overvaliant Mihai Voievod" (Venice, 1785) His forehead will return to Manastirea Dealu, in short time attended by Stavrinos's poem as a superb martyr halo. Matei al Mirelor (Matthew of Mirelor) will carry this paper for printing from Manastirea Dealu to Panos Papanos. Printed in Venice, the book will be republished for many centuries. Matei al Mirelor turned Manastirea Dealu into a powerful center of scribes and miniaturists, as it also did mitropolitul (the leader of the orthodox church) Luca of Targoviste. In this climate of c ultural effervescence, Matei al Mirelor writes "The history of the facts that took place in the Romanian Country from Serban Voda who is still reigning" and "Advices to Ilias". These are the only sources for the Romanian Country's history between the years 1602-1618.

"Maria Ta, pa Ptolomeu ia pilda si deschide scoli,
In tara ta lumina si mila sa masori,
Nestiinta naste rele, invartejeste crime
Calauzeste in hire faradelegi multime;
Fa binele acesta, prea luminate doamne,
Viu numele-ti ramana, in veci sa ti se-nsamne.
Fa ca sa cure apa, racoare paste inimi
Si curateste mintea atator dintre oamini;
O, dazveleste soarele cel obrocit da nori
Intelepciunea lumii astfeliu s-o desfasori
Sunt oaminii ca vita care se uita-n gios
N-au stirea cartii cu sambur luminos
Si litera e vie, da viata si trezeste,
Pa cei umili inalta, pa cei mici mareste,
Cutez a zice ca orbilor ea da vedere
Sa-mbratiseze spatii si sa masoare stele"

The first exercices of cult prose emerged in the times of Matei Basarab and where inspired from the popular literature. These can be related to the existence in Targoviste of the well-known "Schola greca e latina", where the students learned, among others, versification concepts. The first cult versifier is Udriste Nasturel, followed by Daniel Andrean Panonianul. Outside its work as a translator and printing protector, Udriste Nasturel has the merit of being the first vlach who expresses a praise to the latin language.

The tradition in verses of emblem was carried on in Targoviste in the age of Constantin Brancoveanu, by Radu Greceanu, Serban Greceanu, Antim Ivireanu, Gh. Radovici. In this period Targoviste begins to play a secondary role compared to Bucharest, that is why we must look at the great literary achievements of Constantin Cantacuzino, Serban and Radu Greceanu from the angle of the new cultural center's assertion. Just as Curtea de Arges conceded its primacy to Targoviste, so will do Targoviste to Bucharest in the natural dinamic way of history.

The poet Ienachita Vacarescu puts in its genealogy both the grammarian Stanislav Vacarescu, who, compiling documents from Slavonic, adds a few words in which we can hear some of the music of that "fortuna labilis" of Francois villon and Jorge Manrique's sensibility and his father's brother, creator of a genealogy also written in Slavonic.

The magnificent verses of its will: "I live you as a legacy / The rising of the romanian language" receive imperious meanings sent towards the flowers that burst after him and the meanings of a calling brought from the depths of our culture, of the writing's victory in the romanian language. The museum grants front places to Alecu and Nicolae Vacarescu, paying a lot of attention to Iancu Vacarescu, a high-ranking person in the county of Dambovita. Elena Vacarescu interpreted "sui generis" Ienachita's will by increasing the romanian prestige in the world. She was the diplomatic reprezentative of Romania at the United Nations where she defended her country's cause. The romanian life and sensibility were caught in the work "Le rhapsode de Dambovita" - a selection of romanian popular poems written in French, for which the poet received the French Academy Award.

Ion Heliade Radulescu is the writer to whom the museum owes an altar of laical idolization. Though he didn't live too much in Targoviste, Heliade fought to make of this city - in the national perception - the symbol of the romanian glory and elevation. He encouraged Vasile Carlova and Grigore Alexandrescu in imposing to poetry the ruins of Targoviste. His lyric's most important cycle, the patriotic cycle (The morning singing, The poetry, A night on the ruins of Targoviste, Fragment, Waiting for 1848, Goodbye to the birth land, The holy fortress, The romanian army facing the God of powers) bears the name "Targovistenele". In "Equilibrium between antitheses" he names "The romanian march" of Vacarescu and suggests that "Targovisteana" should be the national anthem, following La Marseillaise.

There are in the museum informations on the life and literary activity of the poet Grigore Alexandrescu. Very close to the place where lyes the Church of Wood, amongst whose founders we can mention his father, we can still see the house where the poet was borned.

Alexandru Vlahuta, author of "Pitoresque Romania" published in the "Armonia" paper, which was edited in Targoviste. The poem "Sleep in peace" was written on the death of Matilda Greceanu, whose burial stone can be found on the ground of the Royal Court, near the church Sf. Vineri (St. Friday). Alexandru Vlahuta was a member of the cultural society "Progresul" (the Progress) where he struggled to reduce the anonymous country town status of Targoviste.

The great dramatist borned in Haimanale - county of Dambovita - Ion Luca Caragiale found, it seems, his drama characters in the political and social life of Targoviste. Ion Ghica assisted in the literary evenings which took place in the Fusesti house. He wanted to regain its militant rights for the union of the princedoms by his political activity and prolific corespondence. Through the section from Targoviste, Ion Ghica becomes a member of the Cultural League in 1891. A descendant from the fabulist Grigore Alexandrescu's family, Smaranda Gheorghiu wrote stories inspired from the city's history. You can find in the museum vestiges of the life and literary activity of the writer I.C. Vissarion, books that talk about the life of the romanian peasant.The great dramatist borned in Haimanale - county of Dambovita - Ion Luca Caragiale found, it seems, his drama characters in the political and social life of Targoviste. Ion Ghica assisted in the literary evenings which took place in the Fusesti house. He wanted to regain its militant rights for the union of the princedoms by his political activity and prolific corespondence. Through the section from Targoviste, Ion Ghica becomes a member of the Cultural League in 1891. A descendant from the fabulist Grigore Alexandrescu's family, Smaranda Gheorghiu wrote stories inspired from the city's history. You can find in the museum vestiges of the life and literary activity of the writer I.C. Vissarion, books that talk about the life of the romanian peasant.

We finally return to the workroom of I.Al. Bratescu-Voinesti, where we can admire the writer's library, formed by philosophy, science and literature books. It's the desk where Bratescu Voinesti wrote stories for children, amongst whom we can mention "Privighetoarea" (The Nightingale), "Moartea lui Castor" (Castor's death) and "Puiul" (The chickling).

And we certainlly can't forget those who carried forward their predecessors' work of rising Targoviste on the heights of the romanian culture: Ioan Cioranescu, Ion Calboreanu, Iosif Dumitrescu-Pietrari, Vasile Florescu, Aurel Iordache, Mircea Horia Simionescu, Radu Petrescu, George Tomozei and others.