A Life of John Colet, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's and Founder of St. Paul's School
by Joseph Hirst Lupton (9781150104183)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: G. Bell and sons Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. FOREIGN TRAVEL. Journey through France and Italy -- Other English travellers -- Possible routes. -- Florence. -- The Platonic Academy. -- Savonarola and Ficino. -- The Papal Court. -- Preparation for the work of preaching. IF the records of Colet's life at school and college have appeared slight, and the inferences based upon them conjectural, this holds good still more markedly of his travels on the continent. All that is known for certain of him, between the time of his leaving England, somewhere about the year 1493, and his return to London, probably in the spring of 1496, might be summed up in a single sentence. "After this," says Erasmus, in the passage quoted at the end of the last chapter, " like a merchant seeking goodly wares, he visited France and then Italy." " He studied for a long time," writes Archbishop Parker, " in foreign universities." One point on the route at which he is known to have stayed some time (but whether going or returning is uncertain) was Orleans.2 Another was Paris, which he visited on his return,3 and probably on his outward journey as well. The reader may feel a conviction that he could not have travelled in Italy, under such circumstances, without seeing Rome and Florence; but, strange to say, there is no direct evidence that he was at either 1 " Hie Coletus in transmarinis Academiis diu studuit." -- "Antiquitates" (1605), p. 306. Parker would probably hear particulars of Colet from Tunstall, Bishop of London (himself a Doctor of Laws of Padua), when residing in his charge. 3 See the letter of Francis Deloine t...

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