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===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
[[File:Reknown Triumph.jpg|300px|thumb|Triumph of Fame]] | [[File:Reknown Triumph.jpg|300px|thumb|Triumph of Fame]] | ||
Returning from the battle, the victorious host encounters a furious woman dressed in black, who reveals a countryside littered with the corpses of once proud people from all times and places, including emperors and popes. This personification of Death plucks a golden hair from Laura's head. Laura dies an idealised death, but returns from heaven to comfort the poet, who asks when they will be reunited in one of the most significant passages of the poem. She replies that he will survive her a long time. | Returning from the battle, the victorious host encounters a furious woman dressed in black, who reveals a countryside littered with the corpses of once proud people from all times and places, including emperors and popes. This personification of Death plucks a golden hair from Laura's head. Laura dies an idealised death, but returns from [[heaven]] to comfort the poet, who asks when they will be reunited in one of the most significant passages of the poem. She replies that he will survive her a long time. | ||
This later became [[Death]] card in the [[tarot]]. | This later became [[Death]] card in the [[tarot]]. | ||
===Fame=== | ===Fame=== | ||
Death departs and after Death comes Fame. Her appearance is compared to the dawn. She is attended by Scipio and Caesar, and many other figures from Rome's military history, as well as Hannibal, Alexander, Saladin, King Arthur, heroes from Homer's epics, and patriarchs from the [[Bible|Hebrew scriptures]]. Accompanying these soldiers and generals are the thinkers and orators of Classical Greece and Rome. It has been remarked that for | Death departs and after Death comes Fame. Her appearance is compared to the dawn. She is attended by Scipio and Caesar, and many other figures from Rome's military history, as well as Hannibal, Alexander, Saladin, King Arthur, heroes from Homer's epics, and patriarchs from the [[Bible|Hebrew scriptures]]. Accompanying these soldiers and generals are the thinkers and orators of Classical Greece and Rome. It has been remarked that for Petrarch, Plato is a greater philosopher than Aristotle, who was preferred by [[Dante Alighieri]]. | ||
This later became [[The Chariot]] card in the [[tarot]]. | This later became [[The Chariot]] card in the [[tarot]]. | ||
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===Eternity=== | ===Eternity=== | ||
Petrarch finds consolation in the almighty [[Yahweh|God]] and the prospect of being reunited with Laura in heaven and timeless eternity. Eternity is not represented allegorically. | Petrarch finds consolation in the almighty [[Yahweh|God]] and the prospect of being reunited with Laura in [[heaven]] and timeless eternity. Eternity is not represented allegorically. | ||
This later became [[The World]] card in the [[tarot]]. | This later became [[The World]] card in the [[tarot]]. | ||