Nicholas Brunacci (1240–1322) was among Aquinas' students at the Santa Sabina "studium provinciale" and later at Paris. In November 1268 he accompanied Aquinas and his associate and secretary Reginald of Piperno from Viterbo to Paris to begin the academic year. Albert the Great, Brunacci's teacher at Cologne after 1272, called him "the second Thomas Aquinas." Brunacci became lector at the Santa Sabina "studium" and later served in the papal curia. He was a correspondent by letter with Dante Alighieri during the latter's exile from Florence.