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As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar moving into Italy, it falls to Reginald Pole to help make the case for Henry's divorce from Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton - the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to be Thomas Cromwell's messenger to Pole in Rome. This dubious privilege makes of Throckmorton's life a tragicomedy of endless journeys back and forth between England and Italy, but it addittionally makes him a canny observer of the fantastic dramas of his time. And like his King, he too nurses a thwarted desire.
