MORRETTA, Angelo (Dan Petraşincu). 1910 — 1997. Italian-Romanian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. From 1951 living in Rome, probably died there.
Publications: Gli dei dell’ India: breve enciclopedia illustrata del pantheon indù. 364 p. Milano 1966.
– Il pensiero vedanta. 396 p. Studi contemporanei 6.Rome 1968.
– La parola e il silenzio. Una possibile ricostruzione del logos attraverso il concetto di sabda-sphota della linguistica indiana. 278 p. Rome 1970.
– Aurobindo e il futuro dell’uomo. 189 p. Rome 1974.
– “Sanskrit and the sacred language. Some semantic aspects of the ‘language of the gods’”, IT 3-4, 1975-76, 339-352.
– Miti Indiani. 360 p. ill. Cammeo 22. Milano 1982.
– I Veggenti dell’ India. Testi e interpreti del plurimillenario cammino della ‘Scienza sacra’. 360 p. 1990.
– Also wrote on Amerindian religions.
Sources: worldcat.org; hardly any personal information found, except life years in two book advertisements. Finally some Romania pages showed his Romanian connection.
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