Editing Gasparo Contarini (section)

===Spirituality===
According to historian Constance Furey, Contarini "was representative of a European-wide phenomenon associated with names such as [[Erasmus]], [[Thomas More]] and [[Jacques_Lefèvre_d'Étaples|Lefèvre d'Étaples]], people who combined an Erasmian critique of the established church and ritualism with an interest in biblical scholarship as a means of cultivating internal piety,"<ref name=furey>{{cite journal |last1=Furey |first1=Constance |title=The Communication of Friendship: Gasparo Contarini's Letters to Hermits at Camaldoli |journal=Church History |date=2003 |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=71–101 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4146805 |issn=0009-6407}}</ref> each with no thought of leaving the Catholic church.

In a letter to encourage a missed friend who had become a hermit, Contarini late recounted an event in 1511 where, following Confession with a wise and holy monk, he had a peace-giving epiphany that reliance on penances and heroic asceticism was not necessary for salvation, instead of simple faith, hope and charity: Christ's passion was "more than sufficient."  This has been likened by some historians as a similar event to Luther's "tower experience" and some historians even ascribe Lutheran views to Contarini,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hirsch |first1=Elisabeth F. |title=Contarini and Camaldoli. By Hubert Jedin. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Estratto dall' Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà, vol. II, 1953. |journal=Church History |date=March 1956 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=85–86 |doi=10.2307/3161769 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/contarini-and-camaldoli-by-hubert-jedin-roma-edizioni-di-storia-e-letteratura-estratto-dall-archivio-italiano-per-la-storia-della-pieta-vol-ii-1953/7F3D8480B9CABA74088AEEB95A57588D |language=en |issn=1755-2613}}</ref> however the parallels are disputed by other historians.<ref name=furey/>