{"id":805696,"date":"2026-10-17T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:54:10","slug":"italian-square-named-after-murdered-musician-loved-by-mary-queen-of-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805696\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian square named after murdered musician loved by Mary, Queen of Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A town in northern Italy has renamed a square after a musician and private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was brutally murdered at Holyrood Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1566, David Rizzio was in the Queen&#8217;s private apartment when conspirators burst in, pushed her aside and dragged Rizzio away before stabbing him 56 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor of Moretta officially opened Piazzetta David Rizzio earlier to commemorate his journey from the region to the Scottish royal court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gianni Gatti said: &#8220;We feel a deep connection with this story and wanted to make sure all the people of Moretta knew about our link with Scotland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that while Rizzio was &#8220;truly famous&#8221; in Scotland, he was not as well known locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;How is it possible that he is such an important person in Scotland, but not in the area where he is from?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A town in northern Italy has renamed a square after a musician and private secretary to Mary, Queen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}