 Possibly for the same reasons that his countryman Matthias Flacius was prevented from joining the press at Urach, near Tübingen.At this time, Dimitrije Ljubavić was the first secretary to the "voivode" of Wallachia Alexandru Lăpuşneanu and then spent more than three years at the Patriarchate of Constantinople as a deacon supervising the printing of books.After having probably become acquainted in Transylvania with Peter Petrovics, one of Temesvar's most influential magnates and a fervent supporter of the Reformation, he left for northern Hungary, where in Eperjes (Presov, Slovakia) he visits the governor of the city, Sigismund Tordai-Gelous (1518-1569).