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Every murder story, real or imagined, has an element of comic relief in it. The very character of David Rizzio (or "Riccio" as it is sometimes spelled) has such elements in it. Rizzio was the Queen's secretary, rising to that position over the first months of Mary's reign as Queen of Scotland. He was more than that.
DAVID RIZZIO or RICCIO (1533?-1566), secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was the son of a musician at Pancalieri, near Turin, where he was born about 1533. He obtained a good musical education from his father, and began life in the service of the archbishop of Turin, whence he went to Nice to the court of the Duke of Savoy.
On the night of Saturday, 9 March 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots’ private secretary, David Rizzio, was murdered in the queen's private chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Take a look inside these rooms and find out more about what happened that evening.
Mary doesn’t know that her Palace is surrounded – that, right now, an army of men is creeping upstairs to her chamber. They’re coming to murder David Rizzio, her friend and secretary, the handsome Italian man who is smiling across the table at her. Mary’s husband wants it done in front of her and he wants her to watch it done…
It was also rumoured that he was her lover and father of her child, James VI and I. David Tweedie explains how Rizzio so enraged the Scots lords that they plotted his murder. He points to the complicity of Elizabeth and her ministers and shows that Rizzio's murder was a serious political event, since with his death, died the possibility of religious counter-reformation in Scotland.
17 de sept. de 2021 · Scots crime novelist Denise Mina takes on a 16th-century murder that changed history. The enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots, scheme to assassinate David Rizzio, her Italian secretary. Skip to Main ...
27 de ago. de 2023 · To understand the murder of David Rizzio, we must first grasp the turbulent backdrop against which it occurred. Mary Queen of Scots had returned to Scotland in 1561, a young and inexperienced monarch trying to navigate the intricate web of Scottish politics.
