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Thomas Overbury ( Warwickshire, 1581 – Londra, 15 settembre 1613) è stato un poeta e saggista inglese, che fu ucciso per essersi opposto al matrimonio dell'amico Robert Carr con Frances Howard .
Sir Thomas Overbury (baptized 1581 – 14 September 1613) was an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial.
Cortigiano e poeta, nato a Crompton-Scorpion (Warwickshire) il 18 giugno 1581, morto a Londra il 15 settembre 1613. Fu educato nel Queen's College a Oxford.
Sir Thomas Overbury (baptized June 18, 1581, Compton Scorpion, Warwickshire, England—died September 15, 1613, London) was an English poet and essayist, victim of an infamous intrigue at the court of James I.
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Cortigiano e poeta inglese (Compton-Scorpion, Warwickshire, 1581 - Londra 1613). Consigliere di Robert Carr, visconte di Rochester, per essersi opposto alle sue nozze con Frances Howard, contessa di Essex, fu imprigionato nella Torre di Londra (1613), dove la Howard lo fece morire di lento veleno.
The courtier Sir Thomas Overbury is best remembered for the circumstances of his death in 1613, one of the greatest scandals of the Jacobean period, for which the King's erstwhile favourite Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and his wife Frances Howard stood trial for murder in 1615, although only their supposed accomplices were subsequently executed.
6 giorni fa · Thomas Overbury. (1581—1613) courtier and author. Quick Reference. (1581–1613), opposed the marriage of his patron Robert Carr (afterwards earl of Somerset) with the divorced countess of Essex, and on the pretext of his refusal of diplomatic employment was sent to the Tower, where he was slowly poisoned by the agents of Lady Essex.
