Allegorical poem · 1879

The Triumphs

Petrarch's Triumphs, in the Bohn Petrarch

by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)

Translated by Henry Boyd (1807), with Anna Hume (1644) and Macgregor (in Bohn, 1879)

Petrarch's allegorical procession in terza rima, in which Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time and Eternity each triumph in turn.

Contents · 12 parts

• The Triumph of Love, Part Iabout 200 lines
• The Triumph of Love, Part IIabout 210 lines
• The Triumph of Love, Part IIIabout 270 lines
• The Triumph of Love, Part IVabout 240 lines
• The Triumph of Chastityabout 250 lines
• The Triumph of Death, Part Iabout 160 lines
• The Triumph of Death, Part IIabout 190 lines
• The Triumph of Fame, Part Iabout 180 lines
• The Triumph of Fame, Part IIabout 210 lines
• The Triumph of Fame, Part IIIabout 150 lines
• The Triumph of Timeabout 220 lines
• The Triumph of Eternityabout 220 lines

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