"The Latinist" is especially fun if you like your mysteries brainy. Prins vividly conveys the fascination of the arcane, coaxing us readers deep into the weeds of Tessa's research into Marius' work.

NPR remembers the Rev. Reginald Foster — perhaps the world's foremost Latin scholar. He was the official translator for four popes and inspired Roman tour guides for Latin enthusiasts worldwide.

“The Latinist” is ingenious in its sinister simplicity. In the opening pages of Mark Prins’s novel, Tessa Templeton, a PhD candidate in classics at Oxford, discovers that her mentor has ...

Papal Latinist Reginald Foster passed away on Christmas Day, at the age of 81, after a life unusual in its fullness and even somewhat tragic in its byways.

Rome, Italy, Jan 30, 2007 / 09:20 am Latin is a language that is integral to the life of the Church and it must be saved, says Papal Latinist Fr. Reginald Foster.

Death of legendary Latinist leaves the Church a grayer place By John L. Allen Jr. Dec 28, 2020 | Editor ...

Mark Prins, The Latinist: A Novel (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). 352 pp., $16.95. IN HER celebrated essay, “On Not Knowing Greek,” Virginia Woolf has nothing to say about ignorance of the ...

The head Latinist of the Vatican’s State Department had tapped Foster to write papal correspondence, which was at the time composed entirely in Latin. Foster wanted the job but was bound by a vow of ...

The Professor/Priest, known as the “Pope’s Latinist,” had taught at the Gregorian University for more than 30 years. His course became renowned, drawing students from around the world.