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8 de mar. de 2023 · Hear about the tragic murder of Mary, Queen of Scots' private secretary on 9 march 1566 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.
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David Rizzio Plays Tennis with His Assassins Late Saturday afternoon · 9th March, 1566 · Indoor tennis court · Palace of Holyrood · Edinburgh Lord Ruthven wanted him killed during this tennis match but Darnley said no. Lord Darnley wants it done tonight.
On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as ...
David Riccio di Pancaliere in Piedmonte was an Italian courtier who was born near Turin, a descendant of the Riccio Counts de San Paolo et Solbrito. As a young man, he went from Turin to Nice to seek a position at the court of the Duke of Savoy. On finding no opportunities for advancement, he was admitted, in 1561, to the train of Robertino Solaro, Count Moretta, who had been appointed as the ...
David Rizzio was born in Pancalieri in Piedmont, northern Italy, about the year 1534, though he is sometimes said to have been older. He came to Scotland in December 1561 as secretary to the Count de Morette, ambassador from the Duke of Savoy, and stayed behind when the embassy departed a month or so later, as musician and part-time secretary, having been recommended to Mary by her uncle, the ...
11 de mar. de 2019 · Rizzio’s Murder. On the evening of Saturday 9 March 1566, Mary, at the time six months pregnant with the future King James VI, was having dinner at Holyrood Palace with a small group including Rizzio. Five lords burst into the chamber. Rizzio was hauled out of the room, and at the top of a nearby staircase was stabbed 57 times, with Lord ...
2 de oct. de 2023 · Rizzio by Denise Mina In 1566, half the nobles of Scotland plan to murder Mary, Queen of Scots' private secretary, the Italian David Rizzio - right in front of the Queen. Read by Siobhán Redmond.
