Editing Poet laureate (section)

==== Italy ====
During the 13th century, [[France]]-born [[Raimbaut de Vaqueiras]] served as the court poet of [[Boniface I of Montferrat]]. Poets laureate of [[Italy]] include [[Albertino Mussato]], [[Petrarch]] (1341), Camillo Querno (1514), [[Torquato Tasso]] (1595), [[Maria Maddalena Morelli|Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez]] (1776) and [[Giovanni Prati]] (1849).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Thompson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VngLa-RvPfQC |title=Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical Notices of Eminent Characters of Both Sexes |date=1879 |publisher=G. Routledge |language=en}}</ref><ref>Lindon 2005, n.p.</ref> In 1452, [[Niccolò Perotti]] was made Poet Laureate of [[Bologna]].<ref>Egmont Lee, ''Sixtus IV and men of letters'' (Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1970), page 88.</ref> In the 16th century, [[Bernardo Bellincioni]] was appointed as the court poet for [[Lorenzo the Magnificent]] in [[Florence]] and [[Ludovico Sforza]].