(The Last Duchess 262). “A heart – how to say? – Too soon cheered up. Too easily impressionable: she liked everything she looked at, and her gaze went everywhere. "(The Last Duchess 262)" Browning's inspiration for "My Last Duchess" was the story of a Renaissance duke, Alfonso II of Ferrara, whose young wife Lucretia died under suspicious circumstances in 1561." Shmoop.com Web. 14 June