Micheletto Corella

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Micheletto Corella
|image = Mickypng.png
|imgdesc = A full body portrait of Micheletto.
|birth = 1470 [[Valencia]], [[Spain]]
|death = 1506 [[Milan]], [[Italy]]
|period = [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]]
|faction = [[House of Borgia]] [[Templars]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]] ''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Ascendance]]''}}
{{quote|Micheletto. The best killer in Roma. No one escapes him.|[[La Volpe]]|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood}}
'''Micheletto Corella''' (1470 - 1506) was a ''condottiero'', and a member of the [[Templars|Templar Order]]. He was also, at one point, the governor of [[wikipedia:Piombino|Piombino]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Micheletto Corella was born in [[Valencia]], [[Spain]], but grew up in [[Rome]], [[Italy]]. He was a childhood friend of [[Cesare Borgia]], and would later become his protector.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===Serving the Borgia===
Micheletto would go on to serve the Borgia for the rest of his life, Cesare in particular. He became Cesare's personal executioner, killing any who stood in his master's way. He also became a ''condottiero'' and the governor of Piombino for a short time.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===Siege of Monteriggioni===
In January 1500, Micheletto accompanied Cesare, along with Lucreiza Borgia, Juan Borgia, and Octavian de Valois to [[Fall of Monteriggioni|lay siege]] to [[Monteriggioni]] in order to bring down the [[House of Auditore|Auditore]] and acquire the [[Sixth Apple|Apple of Eden]]. They went home victorious with the Apple and [[Mario Auditore]]'s life taken.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===Murders===

Many of Micheletto's murders went unrecorded, though a few managed to be kept known throughout the years. The Church aided Micheletto by covering up or ignoring his killings.

On 18 August 1500, [[wikipedia:Alfonso of Aragon|Alfonso of Aragon]], the husband of Cesare's sister, [[Lucrezia Borgia]], was killed by Micheletto on Cesare's orders, as the latter was jealous of Alfonso.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

In 1502, Micheletto killed Giulio Cesare da Varano and three of his sons in order for Cesare to be able to take over [[wikipedia:Camerino|Camerino]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Micheletto killed [[wikipedia:Astorre III Manfredi|Astorre III Manfredi]], the Lord of [[wikipedia:Faenza|Faenza]], on 9 June 1502 inside the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

On 31 December 1502, Micheletto simultaneously strangled [[Oliverotto da Fermo]] and [[Vitellozzo Vitelli]] for conspiring against Cesare.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Ascendance]]''</ref>

On New Year's Eve of 1503, Cesare ordered the arrest of all his top captains that had once left his ranks and later rejoined; two of which were strangled back to back by Micheletto. The rest were thrown in prison.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

===Teaching Giovanni===
[[File:Humility PL.jpg|thumb|250px|Micheletto in a "lesson" with Giovanni.]]
At times between 1500 and 1503, Micheletto was left to guard and teach [[Giovanni Borgia]], Cesare's adopted son, and Lucrezia's biological child. He attempted to instruct Giovanni to be tough and merciless, often beating him to force him to learn how to defend himself.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Chapter 2 - Giovanni Borgia]]</ref>

At one point, Micheletto brought Giovanni into the city, and instructed him to engage an old man in conversation. As the boy spoke with him, Micheletto approached the old man from behind, and strangled him to death, merely to teach Giovanni the cruelties of the world.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy" />

These "lessons" only resulted in Giovanni hating Micheletto, and eventually prompting him to run away from home.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy" />

===Final tasks===
[[File:Troche'sDeath.jpg|thumb|250px|Francesco Troche being killed by Micheletto.]]
In August 1503, not long after the death of [[Octavian de Valois]], Micheletto accompanied Cesare to a meeting with [[Francesco Troche]], who had told his brother [[Egidio Troche|Egidio]] of Cesare's plans for [[Romagna]]. Egidio had sent letters to the ambassador of [[Venice]] to warn him, though these letters had been intercepted. Francesco attempted to have Cesare spare his life, but he was ultimately strangled to death by Micheletto, and his body was thrown in the [[Tiber River]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Micheletto then went on to meet with some Borgia [[guards]], giving them costumes with which they could infiltrate the [[Colosseum Passion Play]] to kill [[Pietro Rossi]], Lucrezia's latest lover. Unbeknownst to him, he was being followed by the [[Assassins|Assassin]], [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]], who had sent his [[apprentices]] to take down all the aforementioned guards, and steal the costumes they had been given.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Ezio continued to follow Micheletto to the [[Colosseum]], where he took down all the Borgia [[arquebusiers]] posted there. Donning his own costume, Ezio followed Micheletto onstage, where they both joined the play. As soon as Ezio came close to Micheletto, he attacked him with his [[hidden blade]]. However, Ezio did not finish him off, saying that Micheletto would bring himself down by aiding Cesare.<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood"/>

Cesare later killed his father, [[Rodrigo Borgia|Pope Alexander VI]], after the latter attempted to poison Cesare. As a result, the Borgias' influence over Rome was gone and Cesare became powerless. Cesare sent Micheletto to gather an army to take back Rome, though he never arrived; and instead, Cesare was captured by the [[Papal Guard]]. Micheletto fled Rome, though he was later captured on the order of [[Pope Julius II]].<ref name="Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" />

==Final words==
(As Ezio attempts to stab Micheletto, he laughs.)

'''Micheletto''': ''You cannot save Pietro. The wine he drank was poisoned. As I promised Cesare, I made doubly sure.'' (Ezio gets up and leaves him.) ''I am not yet dead.''

'''Ezio''': ''I did not come here to kill you. He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction.''

==Trivia==
*In the the mobile phone version of ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'', Micheletto was called '''Michelotto'''.
*Upon "assassinating" Micheletto, he is wearing his Passion play costume; however, when he is saying his "final" words, he is wearing his ordinary clothes.
*During Micheletto's "final" words, Ezio will hold up his right [[Hidden Blade]] to Micheletto's throat, regardless of whether the player had purchased the second blade from [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]].
*In the [[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|novelization of ''Brotherhood'']], Micheletto helps Cesare escape. However, he later feels that he is being mistreated, and attempts to kill his master. He fails however, and is instead shot in the face and maimed by Cesare's gun.
*In real life, Micheletto later worked in [[Florence]] from 1505 to 1507, and was killed in Milan on January 1508.
*Ezio's last statement to Micheletto, ''"He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful, is the agent of his own destruction"'', can be found in Chapter 3 of [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]'s ''The Prince'', albeit in more detail.<ref>Found in Chapter 3 of ''The Prince'': ''He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspect to the one whom he has made powerful.''</ref>

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