Cardinal Pole's Special Agent: Michael Throckmorton, c.1503–1558.

Michael Throckmorton is best known for his peripatetic career as Cardinal Pole's agent. This article underlines the anxieties and dangers of that role, undertaken amidst fears that English agents would assassinate the cardinal. It also investigates Throckmorton's private life as a student in Italy i...

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Published in:	History Vol. 94; no. 315; pp. 265 - 279
Main Author:	OVERELL, ANNE
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2009
Subjects:	Throckmorton, Michael Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558 16th century medical history Cardinals (Clergy) Flaminio, Marcantonio Crime victims Viterbo (Italy) Italy
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