I am a retired librarian and teacher; married to an Abstract Expressionist painter. I have been studying Italian in a class with a teacher from Calabria and would like to continue Italian studies in exchange for help with my language, English. I am interested in foreign languages, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Latin, ancient Greek, and biblical Hebrew; ancient and medieval history, philology, lexicography, bibliography, oriental languages, English & Italian literature; Dante, Petrarch; the spiritual life; Eastern Orthodoxy; monasticism, the life of the soul; books, libraries.