The scholastic philosophical characteristic of the Middle Ages, tuco its first expression in the conceptions of the Fathers, namely, the Fathers of the Church. Among them stood St. Augustine (354-430), whose major work was The City of God, and Boethius (480-524), author of The Consolation of Philosophy. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, scholasticism took a keen dialectical nuance, and debate among the thinkers of this current is concentrated on the clash between nominalistic and realistic. The former put the emphasis on the reality of the concepts, and the latter by linking them with sensible objects. Throughout the thirteenth century, the two previous concepts, rooted in Aristotle and Plato, respectively, clashed in the thinking of Franciscan and Dominican schools. The main teachers were Alexander of Hales Franciscan (1180-1245), San Buenaventura (1221-1274) and John Duns Scotus (1266-1308). The Dominicans, Aristotelian trend found its most eloquent in St. Albert the Great (1206-1280) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).
Yes The most notorious case was that of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), who, according to critics, wrote The Divine Comedy by reference d thought St. Thomas Aquinas.
Although the influence of scholasticism spread across Europe, its main distribution center was the University of Paris. It showed, among others, Thomas Aquinas, who with his work Summa contra Gentiles Summa Theologica is considered the greatest of the scholastic philosophers.