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‘Un beau petit mot’ : ‘Lorenzaccio’ and The Many Guises of Seduction
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It is well known that Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio (1834) – which revolves around Lorenzo
de’ Medici’s assassination of his cousin, the Duke of Florence, in 1537 – owes its existence in
large part to Musset’s then lover George Sand; having previously written a shorter play on the
same topic, she essentially bequeathed it to him, and he was to do with its subject matter and
raw material as he pleased. However, it is by no means irrelevant to point out that, «[i]n the
early 1830s, Alfred de Musset was fascinated by the Don Juan legend and by the nature of the
man himself», which prompted him to write, in 1832 and 1833, three poems that «refer directly
either to the Don Juan legend or to Mozart’s opera».
Was this influence decisive in Musset’s shaping of ‘Lorenzino’ into a silver-tonged seducer? Or does Benedetto Varchi’s account of the historical Lorenzo, his contemporary, already
lend itself naturally to such a portrayal? Which aspects of seduction were emphasised in the
different adaptations of this story? This paper will attempt to address this last question, the
answer to which could be a first step towards a diachronic analysis of the intricate theme of
seduction in the most significant efforts to render the enigmatic figure of Lorenzino de’ Medici.
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Musset, Alfred de, 1810-1857. Lorenzaccio