by Claude Gruget (d. c1560)
Translation by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
La Puérilité
Language: Middle French after the Middle French
Our translations: ENG
La Puérilité est nostre âge second ; Son regne est de dix ans, gouverné par Mercure. Vollage, sans arrest, est lors nostre nature, Et l'esprit au sçavoir se veut rendre facond.
Confirmed with M. Prosper Blanchemain, ed., Œuvres complètes de P. de Ronsard, Tome VI, Paris: Librairie A. Franck, 1866, page 419.
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "La Puérilité", appears in Gayetez et Epigrammes, in Sur les sept âges de l'homme, no. 2 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Middle French by Claude Gruget (d. c1560) [text unavailable]
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Pero Mexia (1497 - 1551) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jack Ledru (1922 - 2013), "La Puérilité", 2010, first performed 2011 [ high voice and piano ], from Sur les Sept Âges de l'homme, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Childhood", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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