Trionfo

The classical triumphal procession for victorious generals and Emperors known as the Roman Triumph was revived for "Entries" by rulers and similar occasions from the Early Renaissance in 14th and 15th-century Italy, and was a major type of festival, celebrated with great extravagance.

Another specialized sense of the word was an elaborate sugar sculpture; these decorated tables on important occasions in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, especially in Italy and France.

[1] The word may derive from a call of triumph during antique triumphal processions: "Io triumpe".

Triumphs were described in literature, the cars often carrying classical gods or personified virtues, with Petrach's Triomphi (1374) being extremely influential, for example on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499).

This had woodcut illustrations, and such scenes were very popular in art, perhaps culminating in the enormous woodcut Large Triumphal Carriage by Albrecht Dürer (1522), a triumphal car carrying the Emperor Maximilian that is the climax of the Triumphs of Maximilian (several artists).

Two of the triumphal cars, carrying Chastity (pulled by unicorns ) and Love, from a lavish illuminated manuscript (early 16th century) of Petrach 's Triomphi
Two elaborate sugar sculpture triomfi , personifications of Earth and Air from the Four Elements , for a dinner given by the Earl of Castlemaine , British Ambassador in Rome, 1687