Abstract
In his well-known work, Descriptio Antiqui et Hodierni Status Moldaviae, Dimitrie Cantemir has developed a comparative approach which completes the ethnographic information about Moldavia’s inhabitants and their way of life, in the advent of the eighteenth century. Our paper aims to discern (beyond any auctorial options in writing up and transmitting us the text of Descriptio Moldaviae) the possibility that Dimitrie Cantemir might have followed a clearly-conceived program of presenting his data in accordance with the heuristics of the comparative methodology. Indeed, Descriptio Moldaviae might be also understood as a cross-cultural contextualization of the Moldavian society and its belonging to the European culture and civilization during the Enlightenment century.