Italian sculptor. The son of an architect, he began his training in 1843 as an assistant in the studios of Pietro Tenerani and Randolph Rogers, two of the most distinguished Neoclassical sculptors active in Rome. In 1864 Moretti moved on to the workshop of Giuseppe Obici, with whom he collaborated in the execution of the statues for the Column of the Immaculate Conception near the Spanish steps. In 1883, the same year that he participated in a contest for the monument to Raphael in Urbino, Moretti exhibited Il cacciatore africano (The African Hunter) at the International Exhibition in Rome to critical acclaim. The sculptor subsequently left Rome to work in San Sebastian, Spain, returning to Italy in 1890. Moretti's oeuvre includes religious works and monuments in both bronze and marble; however Il cacciatore africano remains his best-known work. //