In the afternoon the Pope received in the Apostolic Palace the American singer-songwriter and poet Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman), 85, a Nobel laureate in Literature, who is in Rome for his 5 November concert at the Palazzo dello Sport as part of the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour. Vatican News describes a brief meeting, with greetings and a few lighthearted exchanges. The Pope gave him a rosary and Dylan reciprocated with his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One. Leo XIV had already quoted him in July 2026, in the preface to the Vatican Publishing House book Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, using the words of Go Away You Bomb (1963): “I hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned, an' man-handled”. This is not Dylan's first meeting with a Pope: in 1997 he performed before John Paul II at the National Eucharistic Congress in Bologna.