Receives an invitation from Rome to come and be crowned as Laureate--and another invitation, to the same effect, from Paris.

xlii 1341.

Goes to Naples, and thence to Rome, where he is crowned in the Capitol--repairs to Parma--death of Tommaso da Messina and James Colonna.

xliii 1342.

Goes as orator of the Roman people to Clement VI.
at Avignon--Studies the Greek language under Barlaamo.