Twelve youths selected from the best families of Rome, and clothed in scarlet, opened the procession, repeating as they went some verses, composed by the poet, in honour of the Roman people.

They were followed by six citizens of Rome, clothed in green, and bearing crowns wreathed with different flowers.

Petrarch walked in the midst of them; after him came the senator, accompanied by the first men of the council.

The streets were strewed with flowers, and the windows filled with ladies, dressed in the most splendid manner, who showered perfumed waters profusely on the poet[I].

He all the time wore the robe that had been presented to him by the King of Naples.