Dante, Aquinas, and the Virtues | Father Albert Trudel

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This lecture was given at Georgetown University on October 20, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Albert Trudel is an Assistant Professor of Latin and Pastoral Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He 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 is also the Rome Director for the Thomistic Institute's semester abroad program. 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.

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0:00.0	Are you in college? The Tomistic Institute Study Abroad Program is now accepting applications
0:05.7	for the spring semester of 2024. This unique and exciting study abroad program offers you
0:12.6	the opportunity to spend a semester in Rome at the Dominican Order's Pontifical University of
0:18.9	St. Thomas Aquinas. You'll study the ancient and medieval
0:22.4	intellectual tradition of Rome, live with like-minded young men and women steps from the Coliseum,
0:28.4	and participate in weekly cultural and intellectual events, regular day trips, and multi-day excursions.
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0:39.2	to mysticinstitute.org slash Rome. That's tomisticinstitute.org slash Rome.
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1:11.6	Let me first start off by offering you a little proviso to all of that.
1:18.6	My main area is Middle English literature.
1:22.6	I only come to Dante really through, I have had some experience teaching Dante to undergraduate
1:29.0	classes in the past, but I've really truly only come into Dante's studies really in the last
1:35.7	couple of years and that was really mainly forced by my duties as the head of the Ti Rome program.
1:43.3	So if you want to know about that program, I'd be more than happy
1:46.8	to talk to you at the end of my lecture. I'd just like to start off, just start off with a prayer.
1:59.4	Just put all of this under the divine assistance here,
2:03.3	in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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