Costin Miron (1633-1691) was educated at humanist schools in Poland. He was one of the most important personality of the 17th century. He was an evoluated story-teller, he narrated the facts relying on the contemporaries' confessious and he was often implicated in the events - his chronicle was at a great extent, a memoratistic work. 
            We can speak about historic narration of anecdotic type, that was later bought to a climax by Neculce Ion.
            He writes small biographies along witch he follow, the character's destiny.
            The epic has an anticipatony character. He enumerates the signs which forecast the fall of Lupu Vasile's reign: the comet, the sun eclipse and the locust invasion.
            The descriptious - like that of the locusts' invasion - are pages of real literature.
            The portraits are lapidar, announcig the dominant trait: Tomsa's the 2nd crulty, the innounce of the sacrificed Barnovski, theambition with no limit of Lupu Vasile, the wisdome of the educated Stefan Gh.
            The dialogues - at Costin Miron they are an observation of moral traits - the one who laks characterizes himself.
            He writes the book De neamul moldovenilor, din ce tara au iesit stramosii lor (The Nation of Moldavians, The Beginig of their Ancestors). the text of Predisloviei has a poleme character with lampoonist accents. The chronicler has a certain awareness of the purpose of the responsabilities "I shall be responsible for what I write". This awareness represents the manifestation of his humonism. The chronicler was doubled by a poet. His first original work was a philosophied poem on the theme of Fortuna Labilis Viata luminii (World's life). He wrote the first notion about rhyme and literary theory.

            Biography: Costin Miron came from a big Moldavian family of nobles. His father Costin Ion was a relative of the ruler Barnovski Miron. Costin was born in 1633, he made his studies in an Jesuit college at Bar in Poland.
            He came back into the country in the last year of Lupu Vasile's reign, being appreciated as an educated noble. During Stefan Gheorghe's reign (1653-167) he got noble ranks.
            Various rulers (:tefan Gheorghe, Ghica Voda, Dabija Voda) send him in diplomatic missions, they keep him around them during the military expeditions.
            He lives in his castle from Dasov in the Carpathians. In 1685 he was called abbot of Putna.
            His relations with the rulers  are good in the begining. Cantemir C. convents to the lugogement of his daughter to Costin Miron's son.
            Became of the rivalries among the noble families who intrigned at the royal court he was to be killed from imaginary guilts. He was beheaded in 1691 and burried in the church of Barbosi, in Roman district.