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 Natura Boni
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Natura Boni.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23835-1416-1467): Augustine + work cue 'natura boni': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Natura Boni'; deployed in Aquinas's own voice (corpus)