Ronsard à son âme

Ronsard à son âme (FR) Ronsard to His Soul. Ravel's setting (1923 / 24) for voice and piano of Ronsard's poem A son âme. The poem is a translation and transformation, made late in Ronsard's life, of Hadrian's (76 – 138) Animula vagula, blandula. It was thought up during a difficult night of insomnia (November 1585) and dictated to a friend by Ronsard from his sickbed at the priory of Croixval the next morning, »having such memory and vivacity of spirit that he seemed oblivious of his bodily…