Dominic Mancini () was an Italian monk who visited England in 1482–3. He witnessed the events leading up to

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seizing the English crown. He left in 1483 and wrote a report of what he had witnessed, titling his text ''De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium'' ('The Occupation of the Throne of England by Richard III').Weir, ''Princes in the Tower'', at 2–3. The account is a major source of information about the period, but it remained lost until rediscovered in 1934 in the Municipal Library of

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, France, and was subsequently published by C. A. J. Armstrong. Mancini's report was written for Angelo Cato, Archbishop of Vienne, one of the counsellors of King

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and also his doctor and

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Works

* Mancini, Dominic, ''The Usurpation of Richard the Third'', ( C.A.J. Armstrong, translator), Sutton Publishing (1984) * Mancini, Dominic. ''Domenico Mancini de occupatione regni Anglie'', (Introduction, historical notes and translated by Annette Carson), Imprimis Imprimatur (2021)

Notes

References

* Charles Ross, ''Richard III'', University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (1981) *

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, ''The Princes in the Tower'', Ballantine (1993) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mancini, Dominic 15th-century Italian Christian monks 15th-century Italian writers 1480s in England Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Richard III of England Italian expatriates in England Italian memoirists Princes in the Tower