A l’alma stanca | Arder sole’ nel freddo ghiaccio il foco

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Arder sole’ nel freddo ghiaccio il foco

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE GER

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...

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• A. Boucourechliev

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¹ Boucourechliev: "quel invisibil lacio"

Text Authorship:

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

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]

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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 ; composed by Jeanne Leleu.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-29
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