"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.

“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 ...

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 ...

Reginald Foster, a former plumber’s apprentice from Wisconsin who, in four decades as an official Latinist of the Vatican, dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately ...

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.

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.

iscalced Carmelite Fr. Reginald Foster — a world-renowned teacher of Latin, former longtime Vatican Latinist and colorful character — died in Milwaukee Dec. 25 at the age of 81.

On Sept. 2, in Turin, in his ninety-fourth year, died Thomas Vallauri, who has been called the Nestor of Latinists and the greatest master that Italy had of Augustan prose. He was a contemporary ...

Reginald Foster, a former plumber’s apprentice from Wisconsin who in four decades as an official Latinist of the Vatican dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately tweeted ...