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Larivey, Pierre De

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | | Copyright

Larivey, Pierre De (c.1540–1612), French dramatist, of Italian extraction—his name is a pun on the family name Giunti, ‘the newly arrived’. In 1577 he saw the Italian commedia dell'arte company the Gelosi play at Blois, and inspired by them he wrote nine comedies, six of which were published in 1579, and three in 1611. Though based on Italian models, they are in no sense translations but adaptations which often contain much new material. They were played extensively in the provinces, and also in Paris. The best known, Les Esprits (The Ghosts), is taken from a comedy by Lorenzino de' Medici, itself based on material from Plautus and Terence; in its turn it provided material for both Molière—L'École des maris (1661) and L'Avare (1668)—and Regnard—Le Légataire universel (1708). Larivey was the most substantial writer of comedy in France before Corneille.

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Lorenzino de' Medici

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Lorenzino de' Medici , 1515–47, member of the cadet branch of the Medici family. A boon companion of Alessandro de' Medici , he secretly plotted the duke's murder—possibly out of republican convictions. With a hired assassin, he stabbed Alessandro to death (1537) and fled to Venice, where he was eventually assassinated on the orders of Cosimo I de' Medici, the successor to Alessandro. He is the hero of Alfred de Musset's drama, Lorenzaccio (1833).

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