University of Toronto

The University of Toronto Student's Chapter of the Thomistic Institute presents a lecture by Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “Visions of the Blessed Life: Dante's Purgatorio and Aquinas' Virtues.”

Thursday, November 17

7:00 PM

University College 179

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P. is an Assistant Professor of Latin and Pastoral Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He specializes in the intersection between theology and literature in the Middle Ages, and has lately commented on Dante's Purgatorio and the Middle English Pearl for various Thomistic Institute projects. He is also the Rome Director for the Thomistic Institute's semester abroad program. He completed his Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Toronto, his doctoral work in English Literature at the University of Oxford, and he received a postdoctoral License in Mediaeval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.