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Browning's Shrewd Duke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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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.