George Turberville

George Turberville

George Turberville, or Turbervile (1540? - before 1597) was an English poet, second son of Nicholas Turberville of Whitchurch, Dorset, who belonged to an old Dorsetshire family, the D'Urbervilles of Thomas Hardy's novel, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles".

Turberville became a scholar of Winchester College in 1554, and in 1561 was made a fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1562 he began to study law in London, and gained a reputation, according to Anthony à Wood, as a poet and man of affairs. He accompanied Thomas Randolph on a special mission to Moscow to the court of Ivan the Terrible in 1568. Of his "Poems describing the Places and Manners of the Country and People of Russia" mentioned by Wood, only three metrical letters describing his adventures survive, and these were reprinted in "Hakluyt's Voyages" (1589).

His "Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets" appeared "newly corrected with additions" in 1567. In the same year he published translations of the "Heroycall Epistles of Ovid", and of the "Eglogs of Mantuan" (Gianbattista Spagnuoli, also known as Mantuanus), and in 1568 "A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue from Dominicus Mancinus". "The Book of Falconry or Hawking" and "the Noble Art of Venerie" (printed together in 1575) may both be assigned to Turberville. The title page of his "Tragical Tales" (1587), which are translations from Boccaccio and Bandello, says that the book was written at the time of the author's troubles. What these were is unknown, but Wood says he was living and in high esteem in 1594.

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