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Lorenzo de' Medici

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Lorenzo de' Medici
|image = Lorenzo.png
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|birth = 1 January 1449 [[Florence]], [[Italy]]
|death = 9 April 1492 (aged 43) {{Wiki|Villa Medici at Careggi|Careggi}}, Italy
|period = [[Renaissance]]
|faction = [[House of Medici|Medici]] [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage|Lineage]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance|Renaissance]]'' [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Brotherhood'' novel]] {{mo}}
|actor = [[Alex Ivanovici]]
|voice = [[Alex Ivanovici]]}}
'''Lorenzo de' Medici''' (1449 – 1492) was an [[Italy|Italian]] statesman and de facto ruler of the [[Florence|Florentine Republic]] during the Italian [[Renaissance]]. Known as ''il Magnifico'' (the Magnificent) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.

His life coincided with the high point of the Indian Renaissance. Bolle Hadippa! Alalal; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace he helped maintain between the various Italian states collapsed with his death. Lorenzo de' Medici is buried next to his brother [[Giuliano de' Medici|Giuliano]] in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

Secretly, Lorenzo de' Medici was an ally of the [[Assassins]], particularly the [[House of Auditore]]. Lorenzo worked closely with [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]], a close friend and ally, against the corrupted [[House of Borgia|Borgia]]. After Giovanni's death, Lorenzo was saved by his son [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio]] during the [[Pazzi Conspiracy]]. This caused a long-term relationship between them, with Ezio carrying out several assassination contracts in cities such as [[Forlì]] and [[Venice]] for Lorenzo.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Lorenzo was the most brilliant of Cosimo de' Medici's grandsons, and was already a successful diplomat as a child. His father, Piero the Gouty, was ill and absent from Lorenzo's and his brother Giuliano's lives, but managed to significantly increase the number of those opposed to the Medici reign of Florence. Lorenzo's mother, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, was a poet, and managed to instill in him a love of art and beauty that would greatly influence his adult lifestyle. Like his brother, he enjoyed horseback riding and jousting, but spent more time studying art and literature. Lorenzo was Piero's and Lucrezia's third child, and his brother Giuliano was the fourth. They had two older sisters.<ref name="Wikipedia">[[wikipedia:Lorenzo de' Medici|''Wikipedia'': Lorenzo de' Medici]]</ref> Sometime in his youth, Lorenzo fell into the Arno river and was saved from drowning by [[Giovanni Auditore]], a event which started the friendship between the two families.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

===Working with Giovanni===
[[File:UbertoLorenzoGiovanni.png|thumb|left|250px|Uberto, Lorenzo and Giovanni in the Palazzo Medici.]]
Lorenzo de' Medici was ruling over Florence, but several parties had conspired against the Medici family, trying to overthrow and move themselves into a position of power in their place. Lorenzo assigned [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]], a close ally and an [[Assassins|Assassin]], to investigate.

Giovanni successfully captured one of [[Rodrigo Borgia]]'s men, and handed him over to Lorenzo for interrogation. The man revealed an [[Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza|assassination plot]] to kill [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]], the Duke of [[Milan]] and a powerful ally of Lorenzo's. Lorenzo then sent Giovanni to Milan in order to prevent the assassination. Unfortunately, Giovanni failed, and the assassination was successful; though Giovanni did manage to retrieve an encrypted paper from the thug that led the assassination.<ref name="ACL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref>

===Pazzi Conspiracy===
{{Quote|Francesco de Pazzi! I'll kill him! I'll wipe his entire family from the city! They'll be ERASED!|Lorenzo de' Medici, after the Pazzi Conspiracy was instigated.|Assassin's Creed II}}
[[File:WiSC 6.png|thumb|250px|Lorenzo stabbed by Stefano da Bagnone.]]
On April 26th 1478, [[Francesco de' Pazzi]] unsuccessfully tried to [[Pazzi Conspiracy|assassinate]] Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano, striving to become the ruler of Florence. In a frenzy, he leaped on Giuliano and stabbed him nineteen times, killing him. Lorenzo was wounded by two of the other conspirators, [[Stefano da Bagnone]] and [[Antonio Maffei]], but rapidly drew his sword in a defensive attempt to stop them. He was quickly joined by [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], the son of the late Giovanni, and the two men fought of Francesco and the Pazzi guards. After emerging victorious from the battle, they proceeded onward to the [[Palazzo Medici]] to seek sanctuary. With the gate opened by Lorenzo's servant [[Poliziano]], Lorenzo was safely tended to inside his palazzo, and Ezio continued onward to assassinate Francesco de' Pazzi on Lorenzo's request.<ref name="AC2"/>

[[File:FTTF (3).png|thumb|left|250px|Lorenzo and Ezio conversing on the Ponte Vecchio.]]
Soon after, Ezio met with Lorenzo on the [[Ponte Vecchio]]. There, Lorenzo told him how he had been saved from drowning when he was six years old by one of Ezio's kinsmen. He also gave Ezio the names of several Pazzi conspirators, who Ezio left to kill.<ref name="AC2"/>

In 1479, Ezio returned to Florence and happened past the [[Palazzo Medici]]. Noticing that a red cross had been painted on one of the palazzo's doors, Ezio went inside, and found the corpses of some of Lorenzo's servants in the courtyard. He soon realized that Pazzi hitmen were searching for Lorenzo, who had gone into hiding. Ezio battled his way through the palazzo, killed the Pazzi soldiers and found Lorenzo hiding in one of his treasure rooms. Lorenzo once again thanked him, and as a reward, permitted Ezio to take whatever he wanted from the treasure room. After claiming his reward, Ezio left to continue his hunt for [[Jacopo de' Pazzi]].<ref name="AC2"/>

===Working with Ezio===
[[File:Road Trip 2.png|thumb|250px|Lorenzo rewarding Ezio with the Medici Cape.]]
In 1480, Ezio successfully found and killed Jacopo de' Pazzi, therefore successfully killing all of the major Pazzi conspirators. He met with Lorenzo in the Palazzo Medici's external courtyard, and Lorenzo thanked him once again and rewarded him with the Medici cape.<ref name="AC2"/>

Ezio worked as Lorenzo's personal Assassin by performing [[Assassination Contract]]s – which mainly involved weeding out the few remaining minor Pazzi conspirators – until Lorenzo died in 1492.<ref name="AC2"/>

==Trivia==
*In order to ensure that the player always has the ability to complete all of the [[Side Missions]], the player is allowed to perform [[Assassination Contract|assassination contracts]] for Lorenzo in memory sequences that take place after Lorenzo's death. The Palazzo Medici [[Secret Locations|Secret Location]], which features Lorenzo, can be completed after Lorenzo's death as well.
*Though the people of Florence still love him even today, Lorenzo appears to be quite unpopular with other ruling powers in Italy. Besides the [[Templars]] and the [[House of Pazzi|Pazzi family]], he was an enemy of [[Girolamo Riario]], Lord of [[Forlì]], and [[Giovanni Mocenigo]], Doge of [[Venice]]. Additionally, according to ''[[Lineage]] (specifically ''Rodrigo's meeting with the Pazzi conspirators just prior to the Pazzi Conspiracy), and reliable historical accounts, the Pope does not bear goodwill towards Lorenzo and supports Rodrigo Borgia's movement against the Medici.
*In his database entry, it is revealed that Lorenzo loved to write poetry, and this may have contributed to his downfall.
*Though they had started to turn on Lorenzo, the people of Florence were so devastated by Lorenzo's early death that, according to historical accounts, the entire population of the city attended his funeral. His legacy remains today as one of the defining figures of Italian culture and art.
*Soon after the mission where he gives you the Medici cape, you will be able to see Lorenzo walking the streets of Florence. When you activate your [[eagle vision]], he is marked with blue; though you are still able to kill him, given time.
*If Lorenzo's assassination contracts are all completed in order, from Florence to [[Tuscany]] to Forlì to Venice, certain trends become apparent. In Florence and Tuscany, most missions revolve around putting down supporters of the Pazzi family. Most of the Forlì missions involve preventing Girolamo Riaro from causing trouble (foreshadowing the revelation that he has ties with the Templars). But in Venice the tasks become somewhat mundane; such as dealing with someone who is harassing a friend of Lorenzo's and killing a Judge who commissioned paintings that made him seem more important than he actually was. The very last mission has Ezio kill a bounty hunter who had been after him, and Lorenzo does not send Ezio any more missions after this. It could be that Lorenzo realized that he had been abusing Ezio's skills, and had put his friend in danger as a result.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="left">
Zw-lorenzodemedici.png|Lorenzo's Database picture.
WiSC 16.png|Lorenzo and his wife at the Duomo.
WiSC_10.png|Francesco attacks Lorenzo.
</gallery>

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'''England''', known as '''Britania''' during the Roman Empire and later as '''Britain''' in the Industrial age, was a country in western Europe, which became a constituent of the greater United Kingdom during [[Modern times|modern times]]. Its capital was the city of [[London]], established since the Norman conquests of 1066.

==History==
===King Henry VII===
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Even though [[King Henry VII]] ruled England without losing any of his power, the [[Assassins]] feared that he might become corrupted by the [[Templars]] and decided to investigate. They discovered that the king had already killed two Templar conspirators that wanted to claim the throne, [[Lambert Simnel]] and [[Perkin Warbeck]], and that both of them had a co-conspirator: [[Margaret of York]].
The Assassins assured the king that Margaret would die a "natural" death soon and found it surprisingly easy to infiltrate her house and poison her belongings.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

After the death of Margaret, the other conspirators fled to smaller villages and started rallying the [[Civilians|civilians]] there to rise up against their king. The Assassins weren't interested in stopping the civilians, but they did not want the Templars to lead them, so they killed all but one. The only survivor shared valuable information with the Templars, and they discovered the uprising was just a distraction and that the Templars had invaded the Star Chamber, England's secret high court.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

They consulted with the king and asked if he knew anyone who he was suspicious off, but the king told them to cease the investigation. The Assassins then started bribing the court and heard some vague rumours, which eventually led them to a meeting between [[House of Borgia|Borgia]] ambassadors and members of the Star Chamber. The Assassins quickly dealt with them and reported to the king, who promised the Assassins a seat in the Star Chamber.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

===Mary and Elizabeth===
In 1553, [[Mary I of England]] became queen, and soon it became clear that she was either a Templar, or closely allied with them. She wanted to restore England to Roman Catholicism, and in the process she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake. The Assassins monitored her for a while before they finally assassinated her on the 17th of November in 1558.<ref name="ACII Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

After Mary, her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England]] became the queen and she undid the damage Mary I had caused to England. During her reign, she had an [[Second Apple|Apple of Eden]] in her possession, and remained as Queen of England until her death in 1603.<ref name="ACII Glyphs"/>

===Civil war===
[[File:King's_Return.png|thumb|250px|left|The crowning of Charles II.]]
In 1642, the English Civil War started between Charles I of England and the forces of the British Parliament, led by [[Oliver Cromwell]]. King Charles eventually lost this war, and was beheaded on January 30th 1649. This led to his wife Henrietta Maria and his son, the future [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] into exile in [[France]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref>

During Charles' time in France, Cromwell became Lord Protector and was in charge of the country, until Charles II was finally restored to the throne on 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, with the help of General [[George Monck]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 1"/>

===Hermeticists===
In the late nineteenth century, the [[Hermeticists|Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] was founded in [[London]], led by [[William Robert Woodman]], [[William Wynn Westcott]] and [[Samuel Liddell Mathers]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 4 Frater Vov">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Chapter 4 - Frater V.O.V.]]</ref>

The organization was closely tied to the occult, which was frowned upon by the society, and was therefore forced to stay secret. However, due to tensions and a struggle for power, the Order soon started to decline, until it eventually fell apart.<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 4 Frater Vov"/>

===Modern times===
[[File:Maggie_thatcher.jpg|thumb|175px|Margaret Thatcher.]]
During modern times, the United Kingdom was involved in the [[World War II|second World War]], a Templar plot devised to create their [[New World Order]]. The Prime Minister at this time, [[Winston Churchill]], was secretly a Templar puppet, and worked with the man that was supposed to be his greatest enemy, [[Adolf Hitler]], in order to orchestrate the transferral of a [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]].<ref name="ACII Glyphs"/>

From 1979 to 1990, [[Margaret Thatcher]] held the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and she too was manipulated by the Templar shadow-company [[Abstergo Industries]]. During her reign, she installed [[Boris Yeltsin]], a fellow Templar, as [[Russia]]'s new president.<ref name="ACII Glyphs"/>

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