Angelo Maria Quirini. He is known for his strong condemnation of Machiavelli's book The Prince, which he read in Italy, and on which he commented: "I found this type of book to be written by an enemy of the human race. It explains every means whereby religion, justice and any inclination toward virtue could be destroyed". In popular culture Cardinal Pole is a major character in the historical novels The Time Before You Die by Lucy Beckett, The Courier's Tale by Peter Walker and The Trusted Servant by Alison Macleod, and features in Hilary Mantel's novel The Mirror and the Light, the third and last of her novels on the life of Thomas Cromwell. In Season 3 of Showtime's series The Tudors, Cardinal Pole is portrayed by Canadian actor Mark Hildreth. In the mini-series The Virgin Queen he is played by Michael Feast; he is last seen leading Mary's servants out of Greenwich Palace as Elizabeth I arrives as queen. Reginald Pole is a major character in Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I by Samantha Wilcoxson. Reginald Pole, along with his brothers, sister, and mother, are the central family in Phillipa Gregory's historical novel The King's Curse. See also Nicodemite References Sources Phillips, T. (1764). History of the Life of Reginald Pole (two volumes, Oxford, 1764), the earliest English. Stewart, A. M. (1882). Life of Cardinal Pole (London, 1882) Lee, F. G. (1888). Reginald Pole, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury: An Historical Sketch (London, 1888) Zimmermann, Athanasius (1893). Kardinal Pole: sein Leben und seine Schriften (Regensberg, 1893) Gairdner, James (1903). The English Church in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1903) [pseudonym of Marie Hallé] Fenlon, Dermot (2008). Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy: Cardinal Pole and the Counter Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Tellechea Idigoras, Jose Ignacio (1977). Fray Bartolome Carranza Y El Cardenal Pole: Un Navarro En La Restauracion Catolica De Inglaterra (1554–1558) Diputacion Foral de Navarra, Institucion Principe de Viana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. 1977. . Attribution External links "The role of the Venetian Oligarchy" by Webster Tarpley (includes detailed discussion of Pole's activities in Italy) "Queen Mary" by Alfred Tennyson, "Enter Cardinal Pole" Henry Cole, Cardinal Pole's Vicar General, tries to restore Catholicism at Cambridge University T. F. Mayer, 'Pole, Reginald (1500–1558)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, Reginald Pole. 1500 births 1558 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford