Please join the University of Toronto Student’s Chapter of the Thomistic Institute for our first public lecture of the 2022-2023 academic year. Prof. Albert Trudel, OP, Assistant Professor of Latin and Pastoral Studies, will be lecturing on how the fourteenth-century statesman and poet Dante Alighieri’s made use of the thirteen-century theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the second book of his Comedia (The Divine Comedy), Purgatorio (Purgatory).

Prof. Trudel will guide us as we journey alongside Dante and Virgil through the Seven Terraces of Purgatory as imagined in Dante Alighieri’s Comedia (The Divine Comedy.) He will discuss how Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of virtue influences Dante’s pairing of each of the Seven Deadly Sins with a corresponding virtue and respective beatitude.

No prior reading or knowledge of The Comedia is required; however, for those interested, the lecture will focus primarily on Book II (Purgatorio) Cantos X-XXVII.

This event is free and open to the public.