Dominic Mancini

Dominic Mancini (Italian: 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').^[1] 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.^[2]

Mancini's report was written for Angelo Cato, Archbishop of Vienne, one of the counsellors of King Louis XI of France^[2] and also his doctor and astrologer.

Works

• Mancini, Dominic, The Usurpation of Richard the Third, (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