Salve! This is Satura Lanx, and I’m Irene. I was born in Milan, graduated in Classical Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and I’m now living in Tuscany, after a three-years parenthesis in Brussels that definitely left its mark.

There’s not much I love more than learning and teaching, and learning while I’m teaching. I love teaching to beginners, so that I can be the one who shows them the beauty of Latin. I love Latin, ça va sans dire. I can speak Latin, but I make mistakes sometimes.

I love languages, words, and finding hidden links between them.

I even do serious things occasionally, mostly concerning palaeography (that is, reading ancient scripts that seem unreadable) and philology (that is, spotting old manuscripts and find convincing ways to tell which was the real text of the Aeneid of Virgil, pretending that you didn’t guess).

I love my husband and I love babies, so we made one. Also, as soon as she begins to say her first words, she will be used for linguistic experiments – but with love.

I love singing – sacred music in particular, so that I can speak Latin also when I’m singing. I love running, trekking, cooking and tidying up, because I can listen to podcasts meanwhile.

I believe in curiosity, humility and non-judgement – in language learning, and in life.