Dante Alighieri: A Thomist Poet? | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 4th, 2022, at the University of North Carolina. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) specializes in the intersection between theology and literature in the Middle Ages, and has lately commented on Dante's Purgatorio and the Middle English Pearl for various Thomistic Institute projects. He completed his Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Toronto, his doctoral work in English Literature at the University of Oxford, and he received a postdoctoral License in Mediaeval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor of Latin and Pastoral Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He is also the Rome Director for the Thomistic Institute's semester abroad program.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Father Dominic Leg, director of the Thomistic Institute. Thanks for tuning in to today's
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1:10.1	I'm hoping that we can share some thoughts this evening regarding Dante and Tomism.
1:16.6	And I, in the area of Dante studies, I'm probably just as much a beginner as yourselves.
1:23.6	Why don't we just begin with a brief prayer, in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
1:31.3	Amen.
1:32.3	Direct, O Lord, we beseech you all our actions by your holy inspirations,
1:37.3	and carry them on by your gracious assistance,
1:40.3	that every prayer and work of ours may begin always from you and by you be happily ended.
1:48.3	We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. Our Lady's seat of wisdom pray for us. St. Dominic,
1:56.0	pray for us. St. Thomas Aquinas. Pray for us. In the name of the Father and the Son, Holy Spirit. Amen.
2:03.6	So my first task is to say that nothing you're going to hear in this talk is going to be original.
2:12.3	I have drawn, in starting to prepare for this talk I had the happy circumstance of
2:21.6	getting in touch with Professor George Corbett of the University of St. Andrews
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