William Flete was a 14th-century Augustinian hermit friar, an English mystic, and lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century.
Desiring a stricter observance to the rule than they were living, and hearing that there were two monasteries of his order which had returned to primitive discipline near Siena, he set out for Italy.
On reaching the forest of Lecceto, near Siena, in which one of these monasteries stood, he found the place, which abounded in caves, suited to the contemplative life.
He had so great a love for solitude, that he declined to leave it when invited by Pope Urban VI to go to Rome, to assist him with his counsel at the time of the papal schisms then disturbing the Church.
[1] His works consist of six manuscripts: Only Remedies Against Temptations (a Middle English version of De remediis contra temptationes) has been printed.