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 Diligendo Deo
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Diligendo Deo.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Bernard of Clairvaux.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-25983-2681-2822): Bernard of Clairvaux + work cue 'De diligendo': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Diligendo Deo'; cited in an objection (scholastic harmonization expected, not contest)