The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis

After reading The Screwtape Letters in Italian in 1947, Fr. Giovanni Calabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English, so he addressed his letter in Latin. He realized that Lewis, being a classicist, would understand Latin.

Translator/editor Martin Moynihan calls these letters €œlimpid, fluent and deeply refreshing. There was a charm about them, too, and not least in the way they were €˜topped and tailed'—that is, in their ever-slightly-varied formalities of address and of farewell.€ More than any other of his published works, The Latin Letters shows the strong devotional side of Lewis through correspondence that was often intimate and yet also touched on topics ranging from Christian unity and modern European history to liturgical worship and general ethical behavior.