English to Romanian Other Poetry & Literature

Whatever reproach may, at a later period, have been justly thrown on the indolence and luxury of religious orders, it was surely good that, in an age of ignorance and violence, there should be quiet cloisters and gardens in which the art of peace could be cultivated, in which gentle and contemplative natures could find an asylum, in which one brother could employ himself in transcribing the Eneid of Virgil and another in meditating on the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrology or crave a crucifix.....