Although popes have several times named poets laureate, the practice was never regular and never attained importance. The ceremony to laureate Camillo Querno [it], for example, was little more than a piece of entertainment. The pope could laureate a poet himself or delegate the authority to a papal count palatine or another poet laureate. For example, the papal laureate Johannes Rhagius paid 100 florins for the right to laureate six poets of his choosing. Pope Pius I, who had been laureated by the Emperor Frederick III before ascending the papal throne, never created any poets laureate. Nevertheless, papal poets laureate seem to have been considered of the same rank as the much more prominent imperial poets laureate. In 1512, there was a joint ceremony in which two poets were simultaneously laureated by the pope and an imperial representative.[1]

List of papal poets laureate

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The anonymous "Lombard monk" (monachus Lombardus) whose commentary on Alexander of Villedieu's Doctrinale was published at Milan on 24 March 1484 may have been a papal poet laureate.[14]

In 1577, Bartholomaeus Huber described himself as a "papal and imperial poet laureate", perhaps indicating that the titles were considered interchangeable.[15]

Notes

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  1. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 1, pp. lxxx–lxxxii.
  2. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2333–2334.
  3. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2330–2333.
  4. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2339–2342.
  5. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 3, pp. 1672–1676.
  6. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 2, pp. 706–707.
  7. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 3, pp. 1538–1539.
  8. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2342–2343.
  9. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2335–2337.
  10. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 2, pp. 565–566.
  11. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2343–2345.
  12. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2338–2339.
  13. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 4, pp. 2337–2338.
  14. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 1, pp. lxxx, n. 128.
  15. ^ Flood 2006, vol. 1, p. lxxxii.

Bibliography

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  • Flood, John L. (2006). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Walter de Gruyter.
  • Haye, Thomas (2009). Päpste und Poeten: Die mittelalterliche Kurie als Objekt und Förderer panegyrischer Dichtung. Walter de Gruyter.