greykit.poetry · #portraiture

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1842 [robert-browning] My Last Duchess
Dramatic Lyrics

A Duke of Ferrara shows an envoy a portrait of his late wife, revealing through oblique self-justification that he had her killed for being too easily pleased by anyone — then turns the conversation to the terms of his next marriage.

#dramatic-monologue #Renaissance #pride #portraiture #1840s

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