Excerpt from New Things and Old in Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Translation of Various Writings and Treatises of the Angelic DoctorAfter five years' stay with the monks, Thomas, being reported extraordinarily proficient, was sent to the Univer sity of Naples, which had only just finished the first decade since its foundation by Frederick II. Here the boy began rapidly to attract attention by his extraordinary mental gifts. At the same time his life was completely free from the looseness and debauchery of many of his companions. He became drawn to the Order of Preachers, which had set up a Church in the city, and, it is said, sought to join it at an extremely early age, but the prior sent him away until he was older. Finally, at the age of eighteen, he entered the order at Naples.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.