The Triumph of Time and Truth (Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno)is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel produced in three different versions across 50 years of Handel's career. The work, comprising two sections, was composed in spring 1707 and premiered that summer in Rome. Its most famous aria is "Lascia la spina" (Leave the thorn), later recast as "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Leave me to weep) in his brilliant 1711 opera Rinaldo.