Pour l'âme lasse | Mon feu brûle même dans le froid glacial

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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

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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Pour l'âme lasse

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Mon feu brûle même dans le froid glacial,
mais ce feu ardent pour moi n'est qu'un froid glacial,
Amour, dissous est le lien insoluble,
c'est la mort pour moi ce qui m'était fête et joie.
  Ce premier amour qui fut jadis le temps et l'espace
dans la misère extrême est un lourd fardeau
Pour l'âme lasse...

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, written 1533, appears in Rime, no. 281
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This text was added to the website: 2014-12-12
Line count: 7
Word count: 56