Abstract
As the secretary at the Spanish Embassy in Romania, the modernist poet and essayist Ramón de Basterra displayed an outstanding diplomatic activity, as his reports to his superiors show. His stay in Romania also inspired him one of the best books ever written by a foreigner on this great new Latin nation, which he entitled Trajan's Work (La obra de Trajano, 1921). His ideas also permeate two other unknown texts by Basterra, which are also good examples of his highly literate prose: his speech as the Spanish representative at the opening ceremony of the Romanian University in Cluj and the last article he wrote, which was published shortly after his death in a Spanish-Romanian journal from Bucharest. Both texts are reproduced in this essay.
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