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According to some of his contemporaries, Nicolae Iorga was an outstandingly talented public speaker.

One voice in support of this view is that of Ion Petrovici, a Junimist academic, who recounted that hearing Iorga lecture had made him overcome a prejudice which rated Maiorescu above all Romanian orators.

In 1931, critic Tudor Vianu found that Iorga's " great oratorical skill " and " volcanic nature " complimented a passion for the major historical phenomena.

A decade later, George Călinescu described in detail the historian's public speaking routine: the " zmeu "- like introductory outbursts, the episodes of " idle grace ", the apparent worries, the occasional anger and the intimate, calm, addresses to his bewildered audience.