28 Facts About George Ranetti

George or Gheorghe Ranetti, born George Ranete, was a Romanian poet, journalist and playwright, known as the founder and editor of Furnica magazine.

George Ranetti-Ranete was born in 1875, either on October 10 or October 18, in Mizil town, Prahova County.

George Ranetti never graduated, feeling encouraged enough to start writing professionally, but remained in Bucharest as an employee of the Romanian Post.

George Ranetti alternated these contributions with pieces that appeared in the provincial press of Iasi, including, in 1896, the daily Sara and, in 1897, the socialist Noutatea.

George Ranetti was in parallel a reporter for Epoca and Lupta, where he published his first epigrams.

George Ranetti continued to publish standalone booklets and volumes, either as himself or under the pen name Cyrano: Strofe si apostrofe, Ahturi si ofuri, Eu rid, tu rizi, el ride.

In 1903 or 1904, George Ranetti finished his "character novel" Casnicie moderna.

George Ranetti was writing occasional chronicles of plays staged by the National Theater, many of them taken up in Ion Livescu's Revista Teatrelor, ca.

One was read by young Victor Eftimiu, a future playwright and friend of George Ranetti, who was thus convinced to pursue a career in the field.

George Ranetti would publish there under a host of pseudonyms, revisiting his Zeflemeaua ones, but add more to the list: George Biciusca, Caiafa, Coco, Contele de Techirghiol, Ghita Delagambrinus, Netty, Ghita Nifilistul, Sarsaila, Tovarasul Ghita.

On one occasion, George Ranetti participated in rendering homage to a Romanian royal, namely the Princess Dowager Marie of Edinburgh.

George Ranetti personally was described by critic Mihail Dragomirescu as an "independent" advocate of Poporanism, on the left-wing of Romanian agrarian traditionalism.

Also that year, George Ranetti produced the "rhyming prologue" Vatra luminoasa and, as Spiridus, published pieces in the anti-monarchy gazette Protestarea.

George Ranetti shared that distinction, worth 500 francs, with Anghel and Iosif.

George Ranetti decided to run for the Chamber's 2nd College seat in Ilfov during early elections in 1909.

George Ranetti registered as an Ilfov candidate in the March 1911 election, but again lost, polling only 326 votes.

George Ranetti returned with books only in 1914, when he issued another standalone volume of prose, Matache Pisalog.

In December 1914, George Ranetti joined the Cultural League's Steering Committee, whose secretary was Iorga.

George Ranetti was mostly focused on collecting his scattered verse.

In 1924, George Ranetti became the editorial secretary of Universul, under publisher Stelian Popescu.

From 1925 to his death, George Ranetti was again editor of Furnica, restoring his partnership with Taranu.

In 1928, George Ranetti was working on a collected works edition, at Cartea Romaneasca, but never saw it through.

George Ranetti died on May 2,1928, in Bucharest, and was buried at Bellu cemetery, Plot 98.

In 1940, George Ranetti was dedicated a special issue of Stefan Baciu's Veselia.

George Ranetti was survived until 1932 by his common-law wife, Cleopatra "Cleo" Iamandi, and, until 1947, by his brother Atanase.

Badauta, George Ranetti excelled in the fable genre, producing works that were "truly precious and accomplished".

Some stanzas, published in Furnica and attributed to George Ranetti, were irreverently anti-monarchic:.

George Ranetti acknowledges that, otherwise, Ranetti displays an "inventive language" and "virtuosity".