PART I. : MORN. CHAPTER I. birth and early education. The noble Aquino family could boast of a descent through four centuries from the Lombard Princes, besides being allied with the Sovereign houses of Europe in the thirteenth century. The family name was a territorial one, which in Latin and French idioms of speech appears as Aquinas and d'Aquin. St. Thomas was born in the Castle of Rocca Secca, perched high in the mountains, some seven miles from Aquino which lies in the plain below, in the Campagna Felice of the Kingdom of Naples. He first saw the light in the opening days of the year 1225, less than four years from the death of St. Dominic. Landulf, his father, was nephew to the Emperor Frederick I; he belonged to the noble house of Sommacoli, and was Count of Aquino, Lord of Loreto, Acerra, and Belcastro. His mother, Theodora Carraciola, Countess of Teano in her own right, was sprung from the Norman Princes. St. Thomas, their third son, wasTable of Contents CONTENTS; PART I:...

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