Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Paradiso (Ambrose)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Paradiso (Ambrose).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Ambrose of Milan.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23786-221-257): Ambrose + work cue 'De parad': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Paradiso (Ambrose)'; cited in an objection (scholastic harmonization expected, not contest)