Dimitrie Petrino (1838 (?)—April 29, 1878) was a Bessarabian-born Romanian poet. Born in Rujnița, a village in the Bessarabia Governorate's Soroca County within the Russian Empire, his parents were Petre Petrino, a rural landowner, and his wife Eufrosina (née Hurmuzachi). He studied at home under the guidance of a Nicolae Sbierea and perhaps of his uncles the Hurmuzachi brothers. As a young man, he travelled to Italy, Austria and Germany, adopting somewhat of a literary culture, albeit not in organized fashion. Between 1864 and 1867, he was a military officer at Botoșani in the Romanian Old Kingdom; after his wife's death, he again travelled abroad before settling in Czernowitz (Cernăuți), the capital of Bukovina region in Austria-Hungary. Returning to Romania in 1875, Petrino settled at I