Cola di Rienzo proclaims Roman Republic
May 1347
The notary's son, intoxicated by classical Latin and lurid prophecies, seized the Capitoline and declared himself tribune of a restored Roman commonwealth. Petrarch sent congratulations from Avignon, believing the republic reborn. Within seven months Cola was driven from the city by aristocratic mobs. He would return briefly in 1354 and be torn apart.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.