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However, as this is a dramatic monologue, the focus of the poem is the narrator—the duke, speaking to a marriage broker on behalf of a count who hopes his daughter will be the next duchess.  \nd In Context  \nThe Duke of Ferrara  \nIn the 1842 publication of \"My Last Duchess,\" the word Ferrara was not present. It was added in 1849. The poem is loosely based on the historical figure of Duke Alfonso II d'Este (1533–97), an Italian duke who married a young girl, Lucrezia de' Medici, in 1558. At the time of their marriage, the duke was age 25, and Lucrezia was 14.  \nLucrezia was only 17 when she died in 1561. There were suspicions surrounding her death—some claimed she had been poisoned, but this was never proven.  \nIn 1565 the duke married Barbara, the daughter of Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol. Barbara died in 1572, and the duke's third marriage was to Margherita Gonzaga in 1579.  \nBrowning's Dramatic Monologues  \nThe dramatic monologue—a poetic form associated primarily with Browning—is a poem in which the speaker is the true focus of the poem. By way of his or her speech, the speaker of the poem reveals both personality and secrets to at least one silent witness. The characters in these poems are supposed to  \nbe talking about a subject, but the reader primarily learns about the speaker's personality and psychology.  \nTo better understand why this particular form of poetry is a natural fit for Browning, the reader might recall Browning was also a playwright. Although he was unsuccessful, playwriting influenced his writing. The tradition of monologues in theater is longstanding. What Browning has done here is adapt the monologue form to poetry.  \nOne example of this adaptation is evident in Browning's The Ring and the Book (1868–69) . Here he takes the short monologue form and lends it to multiple characters who collectively reveal the story of a murder. Much like English novelist Wilkie Collins had done in The Moonstone (1868), Browning uses his dramatic monologue to explore a mystery. Both The Ring and the Book and The Moonstone were released around the same time, and both utilize the idea of limited narrative in early examples of detective fiction. Collins's novel is largely considered to be the first novel-length detective fiction. However, it is contemporary with The Ring and the Book, which does the same thing, but in a series of dramatic monologues rather than in prose. 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