In 1485, when he was eighteen years old, Erasmus took vows as a monk of the Order of S. Augustine (the same Order to which, later, Luther belonged), vows from which a number of years afterwards he was released by Pope Leo X. In 1492, through the favour of the Bishop of Cambray, he was enabled to pass some years at the University of Paris, which, though at that time not a little degenerated, was still the leading university of Europe. In 1498, Erasmus made his first visit to England, where he remained nearly two years, chiefly in Oxford, and where he was at once brought into relations with a number of famous men, some of whom became valued friends, such as Thomas Linacre, William Grocyn, John Colet, and Sir Thomas More. In 1500, Erasmus, then again in Paris, published the first edition of the _Adagia_, a collection of proverbs, which became in its subsequent and enlarged issues a very different work from the first small volume. In 1506, Erasmus made his first visit to Italy, and received at Bologna the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He remained at Venice, in the house of the publisher Aldus, until 1509, and published through Aldus, in 1508, the enlarged edition of the _Adagia_. In the latter part of 1509 he is again in England, living with his friend More, and publishes the famous satire, _The Praise of Folly_ (_Encomium Moriæ_). In 1514, Erasmus makes his first sojourn in Basel, and begins the intimacy with Froben which was to continue during the lifetime of the latter. In 1516, he prints, in Basel, _The New Testament_ in Greek and Latin; this was the first time the complete Greek text had been put into type.[95] In 1517, Erasmus takes up his residence for a time at the University of Louvain, and during the two or three years following, devotes much earnest correspondence to the Lutheran controversies. He is still at Louvain in 1520, but in 1521, at the time of the Diet of Worms, he removes to Basel, where he takes up his abode with his good friend Froben, with whom he remains until Froben’s death in 1527. In 1529, he moves to Friburg, but in 1534, he returns to Basel, where he died in 1536.