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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURBERVILLE (or TURBERVILE), See also:GEORGE (154o?-1610?)  , See also:English poet, second son of See also:Nicholas See also:Turberville of See also:Whitchurch, See also: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 . He became a See also:scholar of See also:Winchester See also:College in 1554, and in 1561 was made a See also:fellow of New College, See also:Oxford . In 1562 he began to study See also:law in See also:London, and gained a reputation, according to See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, as a poet and See also:man of affairs . He accompanied Thomas See also:Randolph in a See also:special See also:mission to See also:Moscow to the See also:court of See also:Ivan the Terrible in 1568 . Of his Poems describing the Places and See also:Manners of the See also: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) . His Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets appeared " newly corrected with additions " in 1567 . In the same See also:year he published translationsof the Heroyeall Epistles of See also: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 . The See also:Book of See also:Falconry or Hawking and the See also:Noble See also:Art of Venerie (printed together in 1575) may both be assigned to Turberville . The See also:title See also: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 . What these were is unknown, but Wood says he was living and in high esteem in 1594 . He probably died before 1611 . He is a See also:disciple of See also:Wyat and See also:Surrey, whose See also:matter he sometimes appropriated .

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verse is sing-See also:song enough, but he disarms See also:criticism by his humble estimate of his own See also:powers . His Epitaphs &c. were reprinted in See also:Alexander See also:Chalmers's English Poets (181o), and by J . P . See also:Collier in 1867 .

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