Reginald of Piperno (or Reginald of Priverno) was an Italian Dominican, theologian and companion of St.

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wit ...

Biography

Reginald was born at

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about 1230. Since 1927 this town of the

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region in central

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is Priverno. He entered the

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. St. Thomas Aquinas chose him as his ''

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'' and

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about 1265. From that time Reginald was the constant and intimate companion of the saint. By November 1268 Aquinas had completed his tenure at the

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''studium provinciale'', the forerunner of the ''

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'' at Santa Maria sopra Minerva which would be transformed in the 16th century into the College of Saint Thomas ( la, Collegium Divi Thomæ), and then in the 20th century into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''. Reginald was with Aquinas and Nicholas Brunacci 240-1322 Aquinas' student from

as they left

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on their way to Paris to begin the academic year.http://aquinatis.blogspot.com/2008/05/vida-de-santo-toms-de-aquino.html Accessed June 22, 2011: "A mediados de noviembre abandonó Santo Tomás la ciudad de Viterbo en compañía de fray Reginaldo de Piperno y su discípulo fray Nicolás Brunacci." http://www.brunacci.it/s--tommaso.html Accessed June 22, 2011 Thomas dedicated several of his works to Reginald. In 1272 Reginald began to teach with Thomas at Naples. He attended at Thomas' death-bed, received his general confession, and pronounced the funeral oration in 1274. He returned to Naples, and probably succeeded to the chair of his master. He died about 1290. Reginald's testimony is continually cited in the process of Thomas' canonization.

Writings

Reginald collected all the works of St. Thomas. Four of the ''Opuscula'' ('small works') are reports he made of lectures delivered by the Saint, either taken down during the lecture or afterwards written out from memory. These are: ''Postilla super Joannem'' (corrected by St. Thomas), ''Postillae super Epistolas S. Pauli,'' ''Postilla super Tres Nocturnos Psalterii'' and ''Lectura super Primum de Anima.'' Reginald is also considered by some as the compiler of the Supplement to the '' Summa Theologiae''. This supplement was meant to afford completion to the unfinished ''Summa Theologiae'', and it was composed out of book IV of Aquinas's ''Commentary to the

Sentences ''The Four Books of Sentences'' (''Libri Quattuor Sententiarum'') is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the 12th century. It is a systematic compilation of theology, written around 1150; it derives its name from the '' sententiae'' ...

''. The funeral discourse published at

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in 1529 under the name of Reginald is the work of the Italian humanist Joannes Antonius Flaminius.

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