Arder sole’ nel freddo ghiaccio il foco

Arder sole’ nel freddo ghiaccio il foco;
or m’è l’ardente foco un freddo ghiaccio,
disciolto, Amor, [quello insolubil laccio]1,
e morte or m’è, che m’era festa e gioco.
  Quel primo amor che ne diè tempo e loco,
nella strema miseria è greve impaccio
a l’alma stanca...

Translation(s): FRE FRE GER

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• by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, written 1533, appears in Rime, no. 281 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by André Boucourechliev (1925 - 1997), "A l’alma stanca", 1995, published 1998 [high voice, flute, and piano], from Trois fragments de Michel-Ange, no. 3, Editions Salabert [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jeanne Leleu (1898 - 1979), "Arder solea dentro il mio ghiaccio il fuoco", 1924, published 1925 [medium voice and piano or orchestra], from Sonnets de Michel-Ange Buonarroti, no. 5, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel, also set in French (Français) [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Michel Augustin Varcollier (1795 - 1883) , appears in Poésies de Michel-Ange Buonarroti, peintre, sculpteur et architecte florentin, Paris, Éd. Hesse et Cie., first published 1826 GER ; composed by Jeanne Leleu.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Pour l'âme lasse", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Mein Feuer brennt noch in der Eiseskälte

Mein Feuer brennt noch in der Eiseskälte;
doch ist es mir wie Eiseskälte,
Amor, nachdem gelöst ist jetzt das unlösbare Band,
Tod ist mir, was einst Fest und Freude war.
Diese erste Liebe, die einst in Zeit und Raum gewesen -
im größten Elend ist sie eine schwere Last
der müden Seele.

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• Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, written 1533, appears in Rime, no. 281 FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): André Boucourechliev, Jeanne Leleu. Go to the text.

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