"Vartolomei Măzăreanu aparține școlii putnene (devine egumen al Putnei în perioada 1755-1763, dar și al mănăstirii Solca între anii 1768-1774), fiind o personalitate cultivată a Moldovei din a doua jumătate a secolului al VIII-lea, un cărturar cu variate și profunde cunoștințe pentru vremea sa. A rămas cunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai productivi copiști, traducători (mai ales din slavonă și rusă) și compilatori de opere didactice și religioase, cu unele adaosuri de natură istorică. Manuscrisul 'Ithica ieropoltica sau filosofiia învățătoare de fire cu simvolii și cu închipuiri aleasă' reprezintă traducerea în grafie chirilică, din 1764, a arhimandritului Vartolomei Măzăreanu după o culegere de maxime și învățături morale, care a fost tipărită în 1712...Acest gen de lucrare are un rol catehetic, fiind destinată - ca literatură moral edificatoare, cu un vădit scop devoțional - să devină pentru un tânăr "drumul religios" al vieții..."--Back cover

Vartolomei Măzăreanu belongs to the Putna school (he became an abbot of Putna monastery between 1755-1763, but also of the Solca monastery between 1768-1774), being a cultivated personality of Moldova from the second half of the 18th century, a scholar with various knowledge. He was known as one of the most prolific scribes, translators (especially from Slavonic and Russian) and compilers of didactic and religious works, with some additions of a historical nature. "The Ithical Irotic Manuscript or the Teaching Philosophy" is the translation, in 1764, of the Cyrillic script of the archimandrite Vartolomei Măzăreanu after a collection of aphorisms and moral teachings, which was printed in 1712 ... This kind of work has a catechetical role, being intended - as an edifying moral literature, with a clear devotional purpose - to become for a young man the "religious way" of life

Vartolomei Măzăreanu belongs to the Putna school (he became an abbot of Putna monastery between 1755-1763, but also of the Solca monastery between 1768-1774), being a cultivated personality of Moldova from the second half of the 18th century, a scholar with various knowledge. He was known as one of the most prolific scribes, translators (especially from Slavonic and Russian) and compilers of didactic and religious works, with some additions of a historical nature. "The Ithical Irotic Manuscript or the Teaching Philosophy" is the translation, in 1764, of the Cyrillic script of the archimandrite Vartolomei Măzăreanu after a collection of aphorisms and moral teachings, which was printed in 1712 ... This kind of work has a catechetical role, being intended - as an edifying moral literature, with a clear devotional purpose - to become for a young man the "religious way" of life ...