 He was at the time collaborating on "Steaua Dunării", a unionist magazine co-edited by the Moldavian intellectuals Mihail Kogălniceanu and Vasile Alecsandri, where he published a Romanian-language translation of "Canción a las ruinas de Itálica" ("Song to the Ruins of Italica"), a Spanish Renaissance poem written by Rodrigo Caro, but attributed by scholars of the day to Fernando de Rioja.A believer in Pan-Latinism, he popularized the cause of Romanians through articles published in the Romance-speaking press of France and Spain, and founded "Opiniunea", a magazine for Moldo-Wallachian exiles in Paris.During 1856, as the Crimean War brought an end to Imperial Russian administration in the two countries and its "Regulamentul Organic" regime, the exiles saw an opportunity for action in favor of the union.