George Turberville

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.

[2] 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.

[4] 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 unstated troubles.