Editing Dominic Mancini

{{Short description|Italian religious, and writer on the accession of Richard III of England}}
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'''Dominic Mancini''' ({{langx|it|Domenico Mancini}}) was an Italian monk who visited England in 1482–3. He witnessed the events leading up to [[Richard III]] 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').<ref>Weir, ''Princes in the Tower'', at 2–3.</ref> The account is a major source of information about the period, but it remained lost until rediscovered in 1934 in the Municipal Library of [[Lille]], France, and was subsequently published by [[C. A. J. Armstrong]].<ref name="Ross">{{cite book|author=[[Charles Ross (historian)|Charles Ross]]|title=Richard III|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2011|ISBN=9780300229745|page=lv}}</ref>

Mancini's report was written for Angelo Cato, [[Archbishop of Vienne]], one of the counsellors of King [[Louis XI of France]]<ref name="Ross"/> and also his doctor and [[astrologer]]. 
==Works==
* Mancini, Dominic, ''The Usurpation of Richard the Third'', ([[C. A. J. Armstrong|C.A.J. Armstrong]], translator), Sutton Publishing (1984) {{ISBN|0-86299-135-8}}
* Mancini, Dominic. ''Domenico Mancini de occupatione regni Anglie'',  (Introduction, historical notes and translated by [[Annette Carson]]), Imprimis Imprimatur (2021) {{ISBN|978-0-9576840-6-5}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[Charles Ross (historian)|Charles Ross]], ''Richard III'', University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (1981) {{ISBN|0-520-05075-4}}
*[[Alison Weir]], ''The Princes in the Tower'', Ballantine (1993) {{ISBN|0-345-38372-9}}

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