 It cited him arguing that the 4th-century Imperial Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus was a source on the 5th-century rule of Attila the Hun, that philosophers Gottfried Leibniz and René Descartes were historians, and that painter Cimabue was an architect.In what Lucian Boia deems "perhaps [his] most successful page", Maiorescu ridiculed Urechia's claim that 18th-century Wallachian poet Ienăchiţă Văcărescu was superior to Germany's Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Urechia, Laurian, Ghica and Petru Grădişteanu decided to issue a common reply to Maiorescu's accusations, using Rosetti's newspaper "Românul" as their venue.