Petrarch’s “Triumphs,” written in Italian …

Years: 1347 - 1347

Petrarch’s “Triumphs,” written in Italian triple rhyme in 1344, takes the form of a vision a series of triumphs, one superseding the other, so that Love in the end is overcome by Time and Eternity.

He had in 1346 begun a Latin treatise, “The Life of Solitude,” in which he compares the leisure of a country life to the fatigue of a city life.

His love of classical antiquity makes him sympathetic to Cola di Rienzo's 1347 revolution in Rome.

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