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TURBERVILLE (or TURBERVILE), See also: English poet, second son of See also: Nicholas Turberville of See also: Whitchurch, Dorset, belonged to an old See also: Dorsetshire See also: family, the D'Urbervilles of Mr See also: Thomas
See also: Hardy's novel, Tess
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He became a See also: scholar of Winchester See also: College in 1554, and in 1561 was made a See also: fellow of New College, See also: Oxford
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In 1562 he began to study See also: law in See also: London, and gained a reputation, according to Anthony a See also: Wood, as a poet and See also: man of affairs
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He accompanied Thomas See also: Randolph in a See also: special See also: mission to Moscow to the See also: court of See also: Ivan the Terrible in 1568
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Of his Poems describing the Places and See also: Manners of the Country and See also: People of See also: Russia (1568) mentioned by Wood, only three metrical letters describing his adventures survive, and these were reprinted in See also: Hakluyt's Voyages (1589)
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His Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets appeared " newly corrected with additions " in 1567
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In the same See also: year he published translationsof the Heroyeall Epistles of Ovid, and of the Eglogs of Mantuan (Gianbattista Spagnuoli, called Mantuanus), and in r568 A Plaine Path to Perfect See also: Vertue from Dominicus Mancinus
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The See also: Book of Falconry or Hawking and the See also: Noble See also: Art of Venerie (printed together in 1575) may both be assigned to Turberville
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The title page of his Tragical Tales (1587), which are See also: translations from See also: Boccaccio and See also: Bandello, says that the book was written at the See also: time of the author's troubles
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What these were is unknown, but Wood says he was living and in high esteem in 1594
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He probably died before 1611
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He is a See also: disciple of Wyat and Surrey, whose See also: matter he sometimes appropriated
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Much of his verse is sing-See also: song enough, but he disarms See also: criticism by his humble estimate of his own See also: powers
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His Epitaphs &c. were reprinted in See also: Alexander
See also: Chalmers's English Poets (181o), and by J
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Collier in 1867
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