House of Auditore

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{{Era|AC2|ACB|ACR|Renaissance|ACL|Assassins}}
{{Faction Infobox
|name = House of Auditore
|image = Auditorecrest.png
|founder = [[Domenico Auditore]]
|headquarters = [[Monteriggioni]]
|locations = [[Villa Auditore]], [[Palazzo Auditore]]
|related = [[Assassins]]
|religion = Various
|formed = Circa 1320 CE
|notable = [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]<br>[[Mario Auditore]]<br>[[Maria Auditore da Firenze]]<br>[[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]]}}
{{Quote|We are the Auditore da Firenze. We are Assassins.|Giovanni Auditore da Firenze.|Assassin's Creed: Lineage}}
The '''House of Auditore''' was a noble family of the [[Italy|Italian]] city of [[Florence]]. Its prominence in history was relatively short, lasting approximately one to two hundred years.

==History==
During the late 13th century, the family that would become known as the Auditore lived in the outskirts of [[Venice]]. Either around or after 1296, [[Domenico Auditore]] was inducted into the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], under the tutelage of [[Dante Alighieri]].<ref name="AC2"/>

After Dante's death, Domenico was tasked with the duty of hiding [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]]'s [[Codex]] in [[Spain]], but was ambushed at sea by [[Templars|Templar]] pirates. With only his [[Renato Auditore|son]] remaining, he used the bank account given by [[Marco Polo]] to impersonate a nobleman in Florence. There, he took vocal lessons, studied architecture and the classics and adopted the Auditore name. The family continued to pose as a noble house to conceal their true Assassin identities.<ref name="AC2"/>

He then constructed a [[Villa Auditore|villa]] in the town of [[Monteriggioni]], hunted the Templars, and trained his son in how to fight them and collect the Codex pages. Before his death, he left the origins of the family engraved on stone plates in the [[Auditore Family Crypt|family crypt]] hidden beneath Monteriggioni.<ref name="AC2"/>

===Florence===
Over the years, the family gained in, even becoming a close ally of the [[House of Medici|Medici dynasty]], the rulers of Florence. However in 1476, approximately 170 years after its creation, the Auditore family sucked, victims of a conspiracy led by [[Rodrigo Borgia]], [[Grand Master]] of the Templar Order, [[Uberto Alberti]], a lame friend of [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]] before he betrayed the Auditore family to the Templars, and the [[House of Pazzi|Pazzi family]], enemies of the Auditore and secretly Templars. They were considered as traitors of the Pizza and excluded from the nobility.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

===Monteriggioni===
Most of the male members of the family in Florence were executed, leaving only [[Claudia Auditore da Firenze|Claudia]], [[Maria Auditore da Firenze|Maria]] and [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] remaining. After the execution, they took refuge in Monteriggioni under the protection of their uncle and ruler of Monteriggioni, [[Mario Auditore]], a condottiero with an army of [[mercenaries]] at his disposal to fight against the Templars in the region.<ref name="AC2"/>

As Giovanni's only remaining son, Ezio took on his work and sought vengeance against those responsible for the death of his father and brothers. He contributed in restoring the villa and the city of Monteriggioni, as well as adopting the rule of Monteriggioni from his uncle.<ref name="AC2"/>

===Later history===
It is unknown how many individuals bore the name of Auditore after the events of the [[Renaissance]] period, as most of the information about the Auditore family was erased from history by the Templar conspiracy, and the name itself was most likely lost over the centuries. The Auditore lineage extended to two known descendants of Ezio Auditore in the [[Modern times|21st century]]; [[Desmond Miles]] and [[Clay Kaczmarek]].<ref name="AC2"/><ref name="ACR"/>

==Members==
[[File:Auditore family crest by terraxbb4ever.png|200px|right|Familia Auditore]]
*[[Domenico Auditore]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Renato Auditore]]<ref name="ACR"/>
*[[Mario Auditore]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Maria Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Federico Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Claudia Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze]]<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Marcello Auditore]]<ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
*[[Flavia Auditore]]<ref name="ACR"/>
*[[Sofia Sartor]]<ref name="ACR"/>

===Family tree===
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{{familytree | | | | | | | | | | | | DOM | DOM=[[Domenico Auditore]]}}
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{{familytree | | | | | | | | | | | | REN | REN=[[Renato Auditore]]}}
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{{familytree | | | | | | | | | | | | ONE | ONE = One generation }}
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{{familytree | | | | | | GIO |~|y|~| MAR| | | MARIO | GIO=[[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze|Giovanni Auditore]]|MAR=[[Maria Auditore da Firenze|Maria de' Mozzi]]|MARIO=[[Mario Auditore]]}}
{{familytree | |,|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|.| }}
{{familytree | FED | | SOF |y| EZI |y| UNK | | CLA | | PET | FED=[[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico Auditore]]|SOF=[[Sofia Sartor]]|EZI=[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]]|UNK=Unknown woman|CLA=[[Claudia Auditore da Firenze|Claudia Auditore]]|PET=[[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio Auditore]]}}
{{familytree | | | | | |,|-|^|-|.| |!| }}
{{familytree | | | | | FLA | | MAR |!| FLA=[[Flavia Auditore]]|MAR=[[Marcello Auditore]]}}
{{familytree | | | | | |!| | | | | |!| }}
{{familytree | | | | | UNK | | | | UNK | UNK=Unknown generations}}
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{{familytree | | | | | DES | | | | CLA | DES=[[Desmond Miles]]|CLA=[[Clay Kaczmarek]]}}
{{familytree/end}}

==Trivia==
*"Auditore" is an Italian word meaning "auditor". An auditor is a person who maintains financial accounts of a business, which was likely a reference to the family's work in banking.
*The Auditore identified themselves as Roman Catholic, but certain members of the family were also {{Wiki|Atheism|atheist}}. Mario stated that he was "never much of a believer" during his mention of the villa chapel to Ezio, while Maria could be seen praying in her room.<ref name="AC2"/>
**Additionally, in the [[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance|novelization]], Maria and Claudia spent their time in a convent instead of Monteriggioni, with Claudia almost becoming a nun.
*As soon as Ezio was born, his father told him that he was an Auditore and he was a fighter, hinting at the family's Assassin background.
*If the [[Palazzo Auditore]] was visited during the [[Bonfire of the Vanities]] [[Assassin's Creed II downloadable content|downloadable content]], Ezio could see his family as a loving [[Easter Eggs|memory]].<ref name="AC2"/>

==References==
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