Timeline Saturday 8 April 1341

Events on Saturday 8 April 1341 1

• 1341 Petrarch crowned poet laureate in Rome Ceremony on the Capitoline Hill honors the scholar-poet Francesco Petrarca was crowned with a laurel wreath on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, reviving an honor unused since antiquity. The ceremony, held on Easter Sunday, celebrated his scholarship and Latin verse and is often cited as a symbolic milestone in the emergence of Renaissance humanism. Petrarch had lobbied for the honor through contacts in Rome and Naples.