“A wise, learned man”, as a foreign traveller would describe him, and a versatile politician whose name has been associated to Machiavelli, Petru Rares (1530-1538 and 1541–1546) was Stephen the Great’s illegitimate son, and actually a fishmonger when Moldavian boyards decided to put him on the throne with Polish aid.

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