Cristina Vespucci

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Cristina Vespucci
|image = Cristina Vespucci V.png
|birth = 1459 [[Italy]]
|death = 1498 [[Florence]], Italy
|period = [[Renaissance]]
|hidep = yes
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Brotherhood]]'' {{fb}} ''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance|Renaissance]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations|Revelations]]'' {{Mo}} [[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Revelations'' novel]] {{Mo}}
|voice = [[Amber Goldfarb]]<ref>[http://www.kimvaincourt.com/talent/profile/42/Amber+Goldfarb.html Amber Goldfarb Talent Profile]</ref>}}

'''Cristina Vespucci''' (1459–1498) was a well-known [[Florence|Florentine]] beauty, and a favorite of painters; most notably {{Wiki|Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli}}, who used her as a model for several of his paintings.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Cristina was born in Florence, [[Italy]], circa 1459. He was a weird person who did not do anything spectacular. Oh well.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

She was somewhat responsible for starting her cousin {{Wiki|Amerigo Vespucci|Amerigo}}'s career, since when Cristina attended a dinner party one night, she had a conversation with [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] and [[Manfredo Soderini]] about her cousin.<ref name="AC2"/>

There, she exaggerated Amerigo's brilliance, saying: ''"Try Amerigo out. I bet after several years you'll have your shipping company named after him."'' Lorenzo, charmed by Cristina's beauty, took her advice to heart, and several years later, Amerigo was the first to map out the New World and had it named after him.<ref name="AC2"/>

===Beauty of Firenze===
{{Dialogue2|Cristina|I told you. I'm not interested.|Vieri|Sì. But I am.|Get in line.|Cristina turning away Vieri, one of her many suitors.|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood}}
From an early age, Cristina caught the eyes of many boys who wanted to become intimate with her.<ref name="Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

One of those boys was [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]], who was encouraged to go speak with Cristina by [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|his elder brother]] one night in 1476. However, Cristina had no interest in him and walked away. Ezio, who was not used to being turned down by a woman, shadowed Cristina from the rooftops and eventually followed her to her home, where he saw her being confronted by [[Vieri de' Pazzi]].<ref name="Brotherhood" />

Vieri, who had already attempted to impress Cristina on previous occasions, grew impatient when Cristina turned him down yet again. Saying that he was "tired of waiting for her to open her legs on her own," he began to sexually assault her.<ref name="Brotherhood" />

[[File:Second Chance 7.png|thumb|left|250px|Cristina thanking Ezio for saving her from Vieri.]]
However, he was interrupted by Ezio, who came to Cristina's rescue. The two engaged in a [[Fists|fistfight]], where Ezio emerged the victor. As a result, Cristina was thankful of Ezio's actions, and so she began a relationship with him.<ref name="Brotherhood" />

Following this, Ezio visited Cristina in her home quite frequently, and was described to be "[[Freerunning|unbelievably dexterous]]," as the [[guards]] knew that he visited her, but they were never able to catch him trespassing.<ref name="AC2"/>

On one occasion that Ezio slept with Cristina, he was discovered by her enraged father the next morning, who then set the guards on him, demanding his head. Luckily however, Ezio was able to escape.<ref name="AC2"/>
[[File:Last-rites-bh-memory.png|thumb|250px|Cristina with Ezio before his departure from Florence.]]
In 1476, directly after the Auditore execution, Cristina helped Ezio give his father and brothers their proper death rites by burning and setting their bodies adrift in the Arno.<ref name="Renaissance">''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''</ref>

Afterwards, Ezio asked Cristina to come with him, as he needed to leave for [[Monteriggioni]] with his family. However, Cristina refused, saying that she could not leave her own family. Ezio understood her decision, so he gave her a crest-shaped pendant to remember him by, before they parted.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

===Engagement and married life===
In 1478, on the insistence of her father, Cristina was engaged to be married to Manfredo Soderini. The day before their wedding, Ezio returned to Florence for the first time in two years, and Cristina was the first person he visited.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
[[File:Picture1.png|thumb|250px|left|Ezio visiting Cristina in 1478.]]
After a short talk, Cristina sadly told him that she had not expected him to return; before revealing her engagement, and breaking Ezio's heart.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

After being informed that Manfredo was being confronted by people to whom he owed a gambling debt, Ezio rushed to save Cristina's fiancé. Upon killing the gamblers, Ezio dangled Manfredo over a bridge and demanded to know if he truly loved Cristina, to which Manfredo sincerely replied yes.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

In response, Ezio ordered that Manfredo stop gambling, and that he should be a good husband to Cristina, otherwise he would hunt him down and kill him. Afterwards, Ezio returned to Cristina and kissed her, telling her that he had made sure that Manfredo would remain devoted to her.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

Though she was heartbroken for losing Ezio, Cristina nevertheless married Manfredo, and the two of them began living together in Florence.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
[[File:Persona Non Grata 4.png|thumb|250px|right|Cristina storming away from Ezio.]]
Eight years later, Cristina travelled to [[Venice]] to attend [[Carnevale]] with her husband. Noticing her there, [[Leonardo da Vinci]] remembered that she and Ezio had been close, and informed the latter of her presence.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

However, Ezio worried that Cristina would not agree to see him after all the years, so he slipped a letter into her pocket and posed as her husband, requesting her to meet him alone in an alley. Cristina unknowingly obliged and the two kissed, with Cristina believing Ezio to be Manfredo, as he was wearing a mask.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

After discovering the truth, she yelled at Ezio for kissing her, both because she was already married and because she had not seen Ezio in so long. Cristina told Ezio that she had loved him before, and would rather have married him, but it was now too late. She angrily told him to never look for her again and left.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

===Death===
{{Quote|I wish... we could have had... a second chance.|Cristina's final words to Ezio.|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood}}
In 1494, [[Girolamo Savonarola]] took control of Florence after Lorenzo de' Medici's death. Since he declared that all [[Renaissance]] material was evil, and that the city should revert to the medieval times, Savonarola instigated the [[Bonfire of the Vanities]].<ref name="AC2"/>
[[File:Love's Labour 3.png|thumb|250px|left|Cristina dying in Ezio's arms.]]
In 1498, Savonarola's fanatics infiltrated Cristina's and Manfredo's home in order to kill Manfredo. He attempted to fend them off, but it was a vain effort since there were too many attackers, and he was left gravely injured. Fortunately, Cristina managed to escape, though she was soon cornered by the fanatics.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

At this point, Ezio, who had heard about what had happened from a dying Manfredo, came to her aid. The fanatics, who were taunting Cristina for the rich fineries she owned, were startled as Ezio came up behind them and yelled for Cristina to run. Though he killed all of the soldiers, Cristina had already been mortally wounded, and was slowly dying.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

Once she could run no further, Cristina collapsed in a courtyard, and Ezio soon located her once more, holding her in his arms. After showing Ezio the pendant that she had kept with her the past twenty-two years, and telling him that she wished they could have had another chance together, Cristina perished in his embrace.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>

==Trivia==
*Even though Cristina was married for around sixteen years, and saw Ezio only for a few short minutes once every several years, she admitted that she still loved him more than her own husband.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]'', Cristina's surname is noted as "Calfucci," rather than "Vespucci."
**This was amended in the [[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|novelization]] of ''Assassin's Creed: Revelations''.
*Cristina featured in several repressed memories during ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', which were unlocked when [[Desmond Miles]] achieved certain levels of [[synchronization]] with Ezio's life via the [[Animus]].
*Though Ezio witnessed Cristina's death in ''Brotherhood'', he was only later informed of her death by [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] in ''Renaissance''.
*Cristina's eye color appeared to have changed from blue to brown in ''Brotherhood'', although in some memories her eyes remained blue.
*To start each repressed Cristina memory, Ezio must interact with a woman who closely resembled Cristina. Each time, the woman was doing something that related to the repressed memory. For instance, with the memory during Carnevale, the woman in [[Rome]] would be browsing at a mask shop.
*Ezio briefly mentioned Cristina in [[Ezio Auditore's letters|a letter to Claudia]] during ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''. He wrote that ''"After the death of Cristina, something inside me withered."''

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" spacing="small" captionalign="center">
Early Christina concept art.jpg|Early concept art of Christina.
Christina face models by Michel Thibault.png|Cristina face models.
Second Chance 2.png|Cristina's and Ezio's first meeting.
Nightcap 4.png|Ezio and Cristina sharing an intimate moment.
</gallery>

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Germany

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'''Germany''' is a country in middle Europe, situated close to [[France]] and [[Italy]].

==History==
===Roman Empire===
In 259, the [[Assassin]] [[Accipiter]], an [[Alamans|Alaman]], fought in a battle in the {{Wiki|Roman Empire}}. The Alamans faced an army of Romans under the command of a general named [[Gracchus]].<ref name="ACFC">''[[Assassin's Creed (French comic)]]''</ref>

===Crusades===
In the High Middle Ages, German [[Knights Teutonic]] aided King [[Richard I of England]] in the conquest of [[Acre]].<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>

===Essen===
In 1348, the Plague crossed Essen, a town in Germany, and wiped out half of its population. Soon after this, a group called the [[Brothers of the Cross]] arrived. The Assassin [[Lukas Zurburg]] soon found out they were a [[Templars|Templar]] organization that offered protection from the plague, and he also suspected that they were after the [[Ankh]], an artifact that was said to be located in central Europe. In 1350, both the Brothers of the Cross and Lukas disappeared.<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>

===Renaissance===
[[File:PL_ForgetToMention.jpg|250px|left|thumb]]
During the period of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]], [[apprentices]] from the [[Rome Assassins Guild|Roman Assassins Guild]] traveled to Germany to have a meeting with [[Conradus Celtis]], a scholar that had discovered the Assassin Order through his research. The Assassins persuaded him to keep his discoveries secret, to which he eventually agreed.<ref name="PL Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

Soon after that, Elector [[Friedrich der Weise]] decided to found a school that would question the practices of the [[House of Borgia|Borgia]], though they prepared a bribe to prevent him from doing so.<ref name="PL Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

However, the Assassins intercepted the carriage that was to deliver the bribe, and made the Borgia believe that the money had been stolen by bandits. From there, they then used the money to make an anonymous donation to the school.<ref name="PL Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - [[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

===Modern times===
[[File:Adolf_Hitler.jpg|thumb|Hitler, a puppet of the Templar organization.]]
From 1939 to 1945, Germany was involved in [[World War II]], being one of the major countries involved, along with France, [[England]], and [[Russia]].<ref name="AC2 - Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[Glyphs]]''</ref>

[[Adolf Hitler]], the leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany, plotted with Templars [[Winston Churchill]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] to form a [[New World Order]]. Through his associates, Hitler came into possession of a [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]], and during the war, he was supposed to use it to make a clone of himself that was to be left in the bunker. However, the real Adolf Hitler was assassinated and his Piece of Eden disappeared. Oh well.<ref name="AC2 - Glyphs"/>

==References==
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