“There I went, obedient to his will, and there he kept me for five years, afflicted and alone, without books or teachers, from whom I could have learned something.
For this reason, I bitterly lament in my very soul those years which passed over me in vain: in vain because I was unable to study; in vain because I was unable to profit, […] and as a result I was unable to send money to my Father. And if I hadn’t sometimes have visited the nearby city called Gradisca, to learn something from my wise and talented teacher Abramo Morpurgo, who later became my father-in-law, I would have almost perished in my affliction, in the affliction of those who are far from the study of Divine Law; and the more I would have forgotten of what I had learned in the past.”
Bolaffio, p. 3.
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