 The enduring mysteries and contradictions of Bogdan-Pitești's career have since drawn interest from several generations of art and literary historians.A native of Pitești, Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești was the son of a landowner from Olt, and, on his father's side, the descendant of immigrants from the Epirote area of Ioannina, whose ethnicity was either Aromanian or Albanian.His father became a local leader of the Conservative Party.