Dan Petrașincu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdan petraˈʃiŋku]; born Angelo Moretta; Italian: [ˈandʒelo moˈrɛtta]; , 2 June 1910 – 1997) was an Italian-Romanian anthropologist, writer and translator. He was born in Odessa from an Italian father and a Romanian mother. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when he was ten years old, the family fled to Romania, where he went to high school in Râmnicu Sărat and Bucharest. He worked as a copy-editor for "Rampa”, "Adevărul”, "Reporter”, "Lumea românească”, "România literară”. He translated from Victor Hugo, Gaston Baty, Wanda Wasilewska, etc.