The life story of Elie Carafoli, a representative of the Aromanian elite. A subjective testimony

The document presented below in extenso belongs to the academician Elie Carafoli and was presented by him at the solemn meeting of the Romanian Academy dedicated to his 70th birthday. The text is, as we will see, an impressive testimony dedicated to his Aromanian ancestry, recording in a subjective linear course, many of the challenges that the Romanians from the South of the Danube had to go through, especially from the middle of the 19th century.