Petrarch crowned poet laureate on the Capitoline
April 1341
A senatorial procession on the hill where Roman triumphs had once climbed crowned Francesco Petrarca with laurel for Latin verse. He delivered a Latin oration on poetry's nobility and dedicated the wreath to Saint Peter. No poet had been so honored since antiquity. The medieval and the antique embraced briefly on a windy Roman hilltop.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.