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.
In 1512, there was a joint ceremony in which two poets were simultaneously laureated by the pope and an imperial representative.
[1] 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.