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Papal Poet Laureate
Although popes have several times named poets laureate, the practice was never regular and never attained importance. The ceremony to laureate , 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. List of papal poets laureate * Giovanni Aurispa, possibly laureated by Pope Eugene IV or Pope Nicholas V in Rome no later than 1459 *Leon Battista Alberti, ...
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