303. Dante (1265-1321) and Petrarch (1304-1374) are evidently mentioned here as masters of Italian poetry, not for their work as forerunners of the Renaissance. Mr. Lupton conjectures with probability that Gower (c. 1325-1408) and Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) are the English poets intended. 309. ENARRAVIT] 'lectured on'. 316. CODICIBUS] manuscripts or printed copies of the Epistles to refer to. 319. DOCTORIS TITULUS] Cf. X. 23 n. 324. COLLEGIO] Chapter. 337. SYMBOLUM FIDEI] the Creed. 366. Erasmus describes a visit with Colet to Canterbury in the _Peregrinatio religionis ergo_, one of the _Colloquia_. 383. St. Paul's School was founded in 1510-1. 389. PRIMUS INGRESSUS] The portion of the room first entered. CATECHUMENOS] A Greek word denoting candidates for admission to the Christian religion, who were undergoing instruction before baptism: here, pupils just entered. 399. REM DIVINAM] Divine service, with the mass; cf. ll. 551 seq. 437. PARADOXIS] 'unusual.' 438. PROCELLIS] Cf. ll. 597 seq. 449. PUERO] Probably here 'a servant'. 459, 60. SUMPTO ... PUSILLO] This substantival use of a neuter adjective is confined in classical Latin to the nominative and accusative cases. 474. ALTERAM ... PARTEM] _sc_. epistolae; i.e. the sketch of Colet. 489. HUNC] The person intended here must be not Scotus but Aquinas, who is the author of the _Catena Aurea_, a continuous commentary on the Gospels. This violation of the ordinary rule that _hic_ refers to the nearer of two persons mentioned is necessitated by the appropriation of _ille_ to Colet. 493. AFFECTUUM] Mr. Lupton translates 'unction'. 511. DECIDIT] 'settled,' 'left.' 516. APUD ITALOS] Mr. Seebohm, _Oxford Reformers_, 3rd ed. p. 22, conjectures that these Italian monks may have been Savonarola and his companions. 519. GERMANOS] Mr. Lupton conjectures that the Order of the Brethren of the Common Life, founded at Deventer by Gerard Groot in 1384, may be here intended. If this is correct, there is significance in the use of _residerent_, marking Colet's opinion, instead of _resident_; which would make the statement Erasmus' own: for Erasmus had been for two years at a school kept by the Brethren in Hertogenbosch and had not a high opinion of them. 542. COLLEGIA] Colet's censure of the colleges in the English universities must apply to the older institutions founded before the Renaissance. Erasmus is probably recalling here some utterance of the days before the foundation of Christ's (1506) and St. John's (1516) at Cambridge, and Corpus Christi (1516) at Oxford. 544. SCHOLIS PUBLICIS] Mr. Lupton rightly interprets this of the 'schools' at the universities, in which public lectures were given; and shows that as the lecturer had to hire the 'school' for his lecture, the competition for fees would necessarily be keen. Cf. also l. 576. The term is also used at this period for a school maintained publicly by a town. 548. UT CONFESSIONEM] Cf. ll. 133 seq.