This bespoke insight and self-knowledge, by which he surpassed Colet.
From Cambridge he writes to Colet, 24 August 1511, in a vein of comical despair.
Colet wrote to him one day: 'There is no end to books and science.
As preachers, he had most highly valued Colet and Vitrarius.
Colet happened to be dining at the Franciscan monastery near Greenwich.
The irony of Erasmus was backed by the earnest effort of Colet.
That this person was Colet is made clear by a later reference.
With the death of Colet this history of the Oxford Reformers may fitly end.
Colet reads the Novum Instrumentum and encourages him to go on, 394-397.
But I cannot find any mention of Colet in Tiraboschi, after careful search.
