In her ninth novel, The Marriage Portrait, British writer Maggie O’Farrell engages with the enduring speculation that Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo de’ Medici, was murdered in 1561 by her husband Alfonso II D’Este, the duke of Ferrara.
Such speculation has been amply assisted by Robert Browning’s 1842 dramatic monologue ‘My Last Duchess’, which sp ...
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