A Life Pursuing Wisdom
from Part I - Life and Works
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
Thomas Aquinas was born to an aristocratic family in Roccasecca, near Naples, probably in 1226.1 At an early age, he was sent to be schooled by the Benedictine monks at the famous abbey of Monte Cassino.2 It seems that his family planned that he would one day become its abbot – a fitting position of honor and prestige for the youngest son of Italian nobility.3
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