Claim: Urbano Bolzanio was a novice (a prospective member) at the Conventual Franciscan convent of San Pietro di Belluno when he was eight years old, and in 1465 he was still a student at the monastery.
Evidence: In 1450, when he was eight years old, Urbano appears as a novice at the Conventual Franciscan convent of San Pietro di Belluno. In 1465 he was still a student at the monastery, but in 1466 he was in Treviso, perhaps to study theology. The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether they are called to vowed religious life.