This poem is based on the suspicious death of the young wife of Alfonso II Duke of Ferrara in sixteenth century Italy. The Duke is to talking to his future father in law about the portrait of his ex-wife. He was arranging his future wedding, but at the same time he was warning his future wife by telling her and her family the story of her ex-wife. He is advising her that she must take a good posture according to what he wants her to be. He said that his wife was always smiling to everyone. He was a jealous and sarcastic. For that reason, he does not want her to smile at everyone. He interprets her smile as flirting. Duke might kill his wife because there is not other explanation to that premature death. The author of this poem implies that the Duke of Ferrara might be involved in his ex-wife death.
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