 There he was to receive the crown of laurels, as Petrarch had been crowned, on the Capitol.Worn out with illness, Tasso reached Rome in November.The ceremony of his coronation was deferred because Cardinal Aldobrandini had fallen ill, but the pope assigned him a pension; and, under the pressure of pontifical remonstrance, Prince Avellino, who held Tasso's maternal estate, agreed to discharge a portion of his claims by payment of a yearly rent-charge.