Reginald of Piperno
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Reginald of Piperno (or Reginald of Priverno)[1] was an Italian Dominican theologian and the companion of Thomas Aquinas.
Biography
[edit]Reginald was born at Piperno about 1230. Since 1927 this town of the Lazio region in central Italy is Priverno. He entered the Dominican Order at Naples. Thomas Aquinas chose him as his socius and confessor at Rome about 1265. From that time Reginald was Aquinas's constant and intimate companion.
By November 1268 Aquinas had completed his tenure at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale, the forerunner of the studium generale at