Dan Petrașincu (; born Angelo Moretta; ; 2 June 1910 – 1997) was an Italian-Romanian anthropologist, writer and translator. He was born in

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

from an Italian father and a Romanian mother. In the aftermath of the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

, when he was ten years old, the family fled to Romania, where he went to high school in

Râmnicu Sărat Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , german: Rümnick or ''Rebnick''; tr, Remnik) is a city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ' ...

and

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

. He worked as a copy-editor for "Rampa”, "Adevărul”, "Reporter”, "Lumea românească”, "

România literară ''România Literară'' is a cultural and literary magazine from Romania. In its original edition, it was founded on 1 January 1855 by Vasile Alecsandri and published in Iași until 3 December 1855, when it was suppressed. The new series appeared on ...

”. Together with Mihai Șerban and Ieronim Sârbu he published the magazine "Discobolul" (1932-1933). He translated from

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

Gaston Baty Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compag ...

Wanda Wasilewska ukr, Ванда Львівна Василевська rus, Ванда Львовна Василевская , native_name_lang = , birth_date = , birth_place = Kraków, Austria-Hungary , death_date = , death_place ...

, etc. After 1950 he lived in Italy, and died in Rome in 1997.

Works

*''Sângele'', Bucharest, 1935 (for which he was given the "Dimineața” newspaper's Prose Award) *''Omul gol'', Bucharest, 1936 (re-written as ''Omul și fiara'', Bucharest, 1941) *''Monstrul'', București, 1937; (re-written as ''Copilăria cu umbre''), Bucharest, 1944; Bucharest, 1994 *''Miracolul'', Bucharest, 1939 *''Junglă'', Bucharest, 1940 *''Edgar Poe, iluminatul'', Bucharest, 1942 *''Cora și dragostea'', Bucharest, 1943 *''Timpuri împlinite'', Bucharest, 1947 *''Un mare poet al libertății: Alexandru Sergheevici Pușkin'', Bucharest, 1949 *''La resa dei conti'', Rome, 1957 *''Lo spirito dell'India'', Rome, 1960 Romanian edition: ''Spiritul Indiei'' (București, 1993) *''Gli dei dell'India'', Milan, 1966; ''I miti indiani'' edition, Milano, 1982; Romanian edition: ''Mituri indiene'' (Bucharest, 1998) *''Il pensiero Vedanta, Rome'', 1968; Romanian edition: ''Gândirea Vedanta'', (Bucharest, 1996) *''La parola e il silenzio'', Rome, 1970; Romanian edition: ''Cuvântul și tăcerea. O posibilă reconstituire a Logosului cu ajutorul conceptului de Sabda-Sphoța din lingvistica indiană'' (Bucharest, 1994) *''Il Daimon e il superuomo'', Rome, 1972; Romanian edition: ''Daimon și supraom'' (Bucharest, 1994) *''Aurobindo e il futuro dell'uomo'', Rome, 1974 *''Il Quinto millennio'', Milan, 1979 *''I miti delle antiche civilta messicane'', Milan, 1984; Romanian edition: ''Miturile vechilor civilizații mexicane'' (Bucharest, 1998) *''Miti antichi e mito del progresso. Antropologia del sacro dal paleolitico al nucleare'', Genoa, 1990; Romanian edition: ''Mituri antice și mitul progresului. Antropologia sacrului din paleolitic până în era nucleară'' (Bucharest, 1994) *''7 miti maya e aztechi e delle antiche civilta messicane'', Milan, 1996

References

*Aurel Sasu, ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, M-Z'', Ed. Paralela 45, Pitești, 2006, pp. 340–341 {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrasincu, Dan 1910 births 1997 deaths Romanian novelists Romanian male writers Italian male novelists Romanian essayists Romanian translators Italian essayists Italian orientalists Italian anthropologists Romanian emigrants to Italy Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Romania Writers from Odesa 20th-century translators 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian male writers Male essayists 20th-century essayists Italian male non-fiction writers 20th-century anthropologists