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 Inventione
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Inventione.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa Secunda Secundae's definitions of the cardinal virtues explicitly quote Cicero's De Inventione.