The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis

In September 1947, after reading The Screwtape Letters in Italian, Fr. GiovanniCalabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English, so he addressed his letter in Latin. Therein began a correspondence that was to outlive Fr. Calabria himself (he died in December 1954 and was succeeded in the correspondence by Fr. Luigi Pedrollo). Translator/editor Martin Moynihan calls these letters Alimpid, fluent and deeply refreshing. There was a charm about them, too, and not least in the way they…