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13th-century Italian jurists

  • Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
  • Pope Boniface VIIIBenedetto Caetani was born in Anagni, a town located some distance southeast of Rome. He entered religious life as a young man when he was sent to the…