Browning’s influence for "My Last Duchess" was the historical events of a Renaissance duke, Alfonso II of Ferrara, whose youthful wife Lucrezia who passed away in skeptical conditions in 1561. After her passing, Alfonso pursued the niece of the Count of Tyrol. He removes this concise story from history and made it into an opportunity for his audience to have a look inside the mind of a lunatic. Although Browning clues at the real-life Renaissance back-story by putting the word "Ferrara" under the title of the poem as an epigraph, he dismisses the condition from most of its documented aspects. It’s vital to observe that the Duke, his earlier wife, and the lady he’s seeing aren’t titled in the poem at all. Nevertheless there were documented incidents
