Matteo RASCHIETTI

Original title: Alberto Magno e o tratado De Prudentia

Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue 

Keywords: Albert the Great, Auriga, Prudence, Virtues.

Last part of the Summa creaturis (or Summa Parisiensis), written by the Doctor Universalis, the moral treatise De bono considers the good by the point of view moral and organizes the matter into five treaties. The fourth one is the De Prudentia, briefly presented in this article, that sticks his roots in the classical tradition, in the patristic and scholastic.