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Monte Cassino

Italy

Site of the great Benedictine monastery founded by St. Benedict in 529 CE. For centuries, a center of learning that preserved classical knowledge through the medieval period.

Associated figures

Thomas Aquinas

Dominican friar and the greatest philosopher-theologian of the medieval West. His Summa Theologiae, a systematic synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy, became the cornerstone of Catholic thought and one of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy.