NOTES:<br /> "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara,<br /> a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a<br /> description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal<br /> kindliness were a perpetual affront to his exacting<br /> self-predominance, and whose suppression, by his command,<br /> has made the vacancy he is now, in his interview<br /> with the envoy for a new match, taking precaution to fill<br /> more acceptably. (Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning)
