Readings in the History of Æsthetics: An Open-Source Reader; Ver. 0.11
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Saint Thomas Aquinas.[1] The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The life, philosophical writings, and bibliograhpy of Thomas are clearly and skillfully discussed by Ralph McInery and John O'Callaghan.

Thomas Aquinas in English.[2] Duquesne University. Links to translated works by Thomas listed by categories by Thérèse Bonin.

Umberto Ecco. The Æsthetics of Thomas Aquinas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1988.

From the reading …

[B]eauty relates to the cognitive faculty; for beautiful things are those which please when seen.

Summa Theologica, I, Franz Renner, 1474; Niccolò III, Jenson, 1477

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