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Browning's Shrewd Duke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Laurence Perrine
Laurence Perrine*
Affiliation:
Southern Methodist University
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
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PMLA , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , March 1959 , pp. 157 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1959

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1 However, if historical evidence counts for anything, the marriage did take place. In 1565 Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, took for his second duchess the daughter of Ferdinand I, Count of Tyrol. That these historical figures were the prototypes of Browning's characters is convincingly established by Louis S. Friedland in “Ferrara and My Last Duchess,” SP, xxxiii (1936), 656–684.