Veronica Micle

Veronica Micle (born Ana Câmpeanu; 22 April 1850 – 3 August 1889) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian poet, whose work was influenced by Romanticism.

Born in Naszód, Kingdom of Hungary (now Năsăud, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania), Micle was the second child of the shoemaker Ilie Câmpeanu and his wife Ana.

They fell in love and on 7 August 1864, at Bob Church, in Cluj (at the time, Kolozsvár), she married Micle, thirty years her senior.

She came to Bucharest to seek a pension and Eminescu publicly called her his fiancée, but further stresses intervened (including a stillborn child in May 1880) and while he took up the subject again in 1881, he was diagnosed with syphilis in 1883.

After his death in June 1889, she retired to Văratec Monastery, where she put together a volume called Dragoste și Poezie (Love and Poetry), in which she included poems of her own and those of Eminescu dedicated to her, to which she added commentary.

A 2020 Romanian stamp sheet depicting Micle, Eminescu and his 1876 poem Dormi! inspired by Micle
Grave of Micle at Văratec Monastery