María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba the House of Osuna. The Duchess' relationship with famed Spanish painter Francisco Goya and her somewhat eccentric personality have contributed greatly to a continuing interest in her life during the two centuries since her death. Goya executed several well-known portraits of the duchess, most of them during his stay at Sanlúcar de Barrameda (one of the Andalusian country seats of the House of Medina-Sidonia), shortly after the death of her husband, the Duke of Alba, who was also Duke of Medina Sidonia, in 1796. Goya's accompaniment of the recently widowed Duchess combined with certain innuendo expressed in his portraits of
William Painter (author) works such as Beaumont and Fletcher's "Triumph of Death", John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" (from "Belleforest"), and James Shirley's "Love's Cruelty". "The Palace of Pleasure" was edited by Joseph Haslewood in 1813. This edition was collated (1890) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction on the importance of the Italian novella in Elizabethan drama. It has been suggested that Painter was responsible for the 1580 work "A Moorning Diti upon the Deceas of the High and Mighti Prins Henri, Earl of Arundel", attributed to Guil. P. G. Painter's