 The king gave him a three-day oral examination at his residence a few days prior to see if he was qualified to receive the laurel crown.King Robert's examination and the legal document "privilegium laureations " shows the ceremony was a medieval academic event; however, Petrarch intended this grand event to be a new age - the Renaissance, a time of rebirth of the Roman classical traditions of twelve hundred years before.The symbolism of the event among the "loco ipso" (ruins of classical Rome) was a resurrection event, a day to start bringing back the classical era.