How did Erasmus’s stay in Venice help make him famous?

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Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. — Erasmus Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus.

Erasmus’s stay in Venice was instrumental to his fame because of his collaboration with the renowned printing house of Aldus Manutius.

While in Venice, Erasmus worked with the Aldine press to expand his Adagia—an annotated collection of Greek and Latin adages—into a massive monument of erudition containing over 3,000 entries. It was this specific publication that first brought him widespread fame.1