Neni?escu (October 8, 1897–October 1979) was a Romanian poet and aesthetician. Born in Bucharest, his parents were the poet Ioan S.
Neni?escu and his wife Elena (née ?tefan).
He attended Sapienza University of Rome from 1920, as well as the literature and philosophy department of Bucharest University.
At first an assistant professor of aesthetics, he later became an associate professor at Bucharest.
He served as press secretary and later economic adviser to the Romanian legation in The Hague.Neni?escu's first publication was a 1915 article about William Shakespeare that appeared in Noua revista româna.
His first book of poetry, Denii (1919), was followed by Vraja (1923) and Ode italice (1925).
His single volume of theatre was Trei mistere (1922).
From 1924, he wrote for Gândirea, and was a founding member of Romania's PEN Club.
He also contributed poetry and art criticism to Convorbiri Literare, Ideea europeana, Vremea, Universul literar, Via?a Româneasca, Adevarul and Arta plastica.
In 1925, Neni?escu published a treatise, Istoria artei ca filosofie a istoriei.
He translated from Benedetto Croce (Aesthetic, 1922) and Niccolò Machiavelli (The Mandrake, 1926).Initially, Neni?escu's poetry was discursive and religious, in line with the Gândirist current.
His verse became progressively more hermetic, as can be seen in the anthology volume Ani (1973).
Including texts published in the 1940s and '50s, it reveals the intellectualized lyric verse of an eminently classical nature.