Primarily known as a revolutionary figure at 1848 and a Romantic historic theoretician, Nicolae Bălcescu expresses in his Românii supt Mihai Voievod Viteazul the way in which literary strategies and techniques can generate a mythical pattern focusing identity and ethnicity. The Romantic historicist formula symbolically orients the events presented with a double aim: the promotion of revolutionary ideals, covered in a (in)discrete persuasive literary clothes and the textually expression of authorial profile. The real author, finally exiled in Italy after the revolution, re-constructs himself out of the symbolical figures of the interior exile.