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Mindmap von Willow Turner, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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My Last Duchess
- "That's my last Duchess, painted on the wall,"
- Referring to fresco, a
painting on fresh plaster.
she can never be sold,
bought or bartered. She's
stuck with him forever.
- Referring to fresco, a
painting on fresh plaster.
she can never be sold,
bought or bartered. She's
stuck with him forever.
- Hints at his possessive nature - "My"
- Based on the life a 16th Century Italian Duke. The narrator is
Duke Alfonso II who ruled a place in northern Italy called
Ferrera. The Duchess written about is Alfonso's 1st wife,
Lucrecia de'Medici who died in 1561, age 17, under 'mysterious
circumstances' - most likely poisoned.
- "Looking as if she were alive."
- Tells us she's dead as a backstop to the story.
- Tells us she's dead as a backstop to the story.
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