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Richard III

my academic stuff about RIII in Italian:

my thesis

"And wilt thou learn of me?" Spiegare Richard III al cinema

Il mito di Riccardo III

Ricardian Tour 2008

research

my blog

Richard III Society

American Branch

Graham Turner

The Society Forum

Why Richard III?

People may find strange that I, an Italian girl, could spend my time dealing with an English king dead more than 520 years ago. Why should I find interesting such a matter? And wasn't he that, uh, innocent babies' butcher?

Richard III tells us a different story. His historiographical reversal teaches us that history is not a thing that's set once and for all, but it's prone to corrections and exposed to political changing winds. Richard III was much a maligned king, and the aim of the Richard III Society (to which I belong) is to try to find out which was the truth under all the following propagandistic filth. And that's not an easy job. Maybe we'll never know it.

Everyone of us casts upon Richard III his/her own vision. He's like a mirror for our imagination. We Ricardians believe that he was quite a good king.

And that he didn't kill the princes.

My reading path: Stevenson's Black Arrow > Shakespeare > Jean Plaidy's The Reluctant Queen adapted > Pollard's RIII and The Princes in The Tower > Potter's Good King Richard? > Kendall, Cheetham, Horrox etc (not thoroughly) > all the critical material available for my thesis > Penman's Sunne in Splendour and other bits of historical novels (go and see Carleton's Under the Hog).

In June 2008 I joined the Ricardian Tour of England with the American Branch of the Richard III Society - check here for a journal of that wonderful trip!

Important dates:

October 2: Richard is born at Fotheringhay Castle, 1452.

April 14: battle of Barnet, 1471.

May 4: battle of Tewkesbury, 1471.

July 6: Richard is crowned King, 1483.

22 August: Richard dies at Bosworth Field.

my gallery (Richard's illustrations)

in the Paintings page, you will find my oil imaginary portrait of Richard III.

In December 2005, six of these illustrations were published in the Christmas Issue of The Ragged Staff, bulletin of the RIII Society - Michigan Chapter, thanks to Janet M. Trimbath. You may find a sample here .