Between Purgatorio and Paradiso (I’m referring to the books) I found some time to read the small work Chesterton wrote on Aquinas. I thought it would be a nice idea to compare it with a novel by Louis de Wohl based on the life of Saint Thomas. However, these two works are so different, it seems impossible to find some common ground to build a comparison: true!, they both have Saint Thomas as its “topic”, but that is not enough: heterogenea non comparari possunt -different things are not subject to comparison- said somebody, so I’ll avoid comparisons altogether. (I’ve noticed that if you say something in Latin people take it more seriously, so I’ll be using this technique more frequently from now on). Continue reading
