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Stefano da Bagnone

2011-09-16T20:56:24Z

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|death = 1480 [[Tuscany]], [[Italy]]
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'''Stefano da Bagnone''' (1418 - 1480) was one of the [[Pazzi Conspiracy|Pazzi conspirators]] who attempted to murder [[Lorenzo de' Medici]]. He was a monk and a secretary to [[Jacopo de Pazzi]], and one of the men whom Jacopo hired to kill Lorenzo.
==Biography==
===Pazzi conspiracy===

In 1478, Stefano met with Templar loyalists in the catacombs under [[Santa Maria Novella]] where he gave a blessing to the [[Templars]] operation to take control of [[Florence]]. The next morning, Stefano was present at the [[Duomo]] where he stabbed Lorenzo de' Medici in the neck. After the Pazzi conspiracy failed, Stefano fled to [[Tuscany]].

===Death===
While in Tuscany, Stefano sought refuge in a monastery, [[Monte Oliveto Maggiore]]. While he was there, he was assassinated by [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] while trying to convince another monk that God wasn't real.

==Final words==
*'''Bagnone: '''''Now I will see who was right...''
*'''Ezio:''' ''Where is Jacopo?''
*'''Bagnone:''' ''Nothing to fear I suppose... They meet in the shadow of the Roman Gods...''
*'''Ezio:''' ''Ora sei libero dalla paura''. (Be free of your fear now.) ''Requiescat in Pace''. (Rest in peace.)

==Trivia==
*In real life, Stefano da Bagnone was a priest who tried to kill [[Lorenzo de' Medici]]. He found refuge with monks, but was arrested on May 3, 1478. His nose and ears were cut off, and he was hanged from the [[Palazzo della Signoria]] tower.
*He is initially shown to be atheist (by being part of an atheist organization, and by openly claiming that God did not exist), but is actually unsure of the truth (as shown in the final words section above).
*When Ezio is about to ask the monks in [[Forlì]] about [[Savonarola]], they flee from Ezio because he killed Stefano, claiming that "the killer of monks has returned."
==Gallery==
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wrinklebag.png|Stefano voicing his plan on the Duomo attack.
WiSC_6.png|Stefano da Bagnone strikes Lorenzo.
TCTM_3.png|Stefano, moments before his death.
TCTM 5.png|Ezio talking to Stefano, before dying.
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Marco Barbarigo

2011-09-16T20:50:49Z

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|birth = c. 1413 [[Italy]]
|death = 1486 [[Venice]], Italy
|period = [[Renaissance]]
|faction = [[House of Barbarigo]] [[Templars]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
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'''Marco Barbarigo''' (1413 - 1486) was a member of the [[Templars|Knights Templar]] and became the Doge of [[Venice]] in 1486. He was the cousin of [[Silvio Barbarigo]], brother to [[Agostino Barbarigo]], and is related to [[Emilio Barbarigo]] somehow but it is unknown how. Belonging to a rich and powerful family of nobility, Marco was a tyrant who was used to getting his own way by any means.

==Biography==
===Decieving Dante===
Once a friend of his bodyguard and attendant, [[Dante Moro]], Marco became attracted to Moro's wife [[Carlotta Moro|Carlotta]] and orchestrated an attempt on his former friend's life. Dante escaped his killers, but his wounds left his brain damaged. Marco made Dante renounce his marriage and afterwards he married Carlotta.<ref name="Assassin's Creed II">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
===Becoming a Templar Doge===

Like most of the Barbarigo family, Marco became involved with "''the Spaniard''" [[Rodrigo Borgia]] and his plot to take over the Venetian government. In 1485, after the assassination of his relative Emilio Barbarigo, Marco, [[Dante Moro]], Silvio Barbarigo and [[Carlo Grimaldi]] met with Rodrigo Borgia

[[File:Marcobarbarigo.png|thumb|left|Marco meets with other Templars in [[Venice]].]]

to plan the assassination of Doge [[Giovanni Mocenigo]]. Unbeknownst to them, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] eavesdropped on the meeting and discovered the Barbarigos' allegiance. After the death of Doge Mocenigo, Marco was appointed the new Doge, and declared Ezio an enemy of Venice for the murder of Giovanni Mocenigo.

===Death===

Marco spent most of his time hidden in the [[Palazzo Ducale]], never to come out. However, Ezio managed to infiltrate Marco's private [[Carnevale]] party. When Marco finally showed up on his boat to deliver a speech, Ezio took his chance to assassinate Marco, after which Marco's brother Agostino Barbarigo would later become Doge.

==Final Words==

'''Marco:''' No, it's too soon. I'm not ready.

'''Ezio:''' We rarely are. ''Che la morte non sia crudele.'' (Death be not unkind.) ''Requiescat in pace. ''(Rest in peace.)

 

==Trivia==
*[[File:Marcolineage.png|thumb|Marco talking to his messenger in ''Lineage''.]]In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]'', Marco Barbarigo is portrayed by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284804/ Frank Fontaine], who was 73 years old at the time.
*In real life, Marco didn't die during the Carnevale, but in August, probably for a dispute between nobles.
*Marco is the only templar to be involved a religion (Roman Catholic)

==Notes and references==
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House of Borgia

2011-09-12T22:32:11Z

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|leader = [[Rodrigo Borgia]]
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The '''House of Borgia, or Borja,''' was a [[Spain|Spanish]]-[[Italy|Italian]] noble family that became prominent during the [[Renaissance]]. Notable members of the family include [[Rodrigo Borgia|Rodrigo]], [[Cesare Borgia|Cesare]] and [[Lucrezia Borgia]]. The family is known today for their crimes, such as theft, murder, incest and simony. During the Renaissance, the Borgia family was the most prominent embodiment of the [[Templars]] and also the Order's leaders. In 1492 with election of Rodrigo Borgia to Pope, the family became the ruling body of the [[Papacy|Papal state]]. The city of [[Rome]] declined into corruption, theft, murder and oppression.

[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] became a prominent resistance against the Borgia in the early 16th century, and [[Apprentices|recruited citizens]] to the [[Assassins]]' [[Liberation of Rome|cause]]. As the power of the Borgias declined and disarrayed, the city of Rome experienced a change, the benefits of art and culture finally arrived and its people discovered the prosperity of the Renaissance. In 1503 with the murder of Rodrigo Borgia, courtesy of his son, Cesare, the Borgia family took an instant downfall, with Cesare, the Captain General of the Papal armies, arrested and exiled to [[Spain]] in 1504. The family lost all of it's influence upon the death of Rodrigo after Pius III and later [[Julius II]] succeeded him as Pope.

==Notable members==
*[[Rodrigo Borgia]]
*[[Juan Borgia the Younger]]
*[[Cesare Borgia]]
*[[Lucrezia Borgia]]
*[[Jofré Borgia]]
*[[Giovanni Borgia]]
*[[Juan Borgia the Elder]]
*[[Battista Borgia]]
*[[Francisco de Borja]]
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House of Pazzi

2011-09-12T22:31:02Z

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The '''House of Pazzi '''was a group of [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] nobles, who owned banks throughout [[Florence]] during the 15th century. Affiliated with the [[Templars]], the Pazzi family was most infamously known for their attempt to gain control of Florence through the [[Pazzi Conspiracy]].

==History==
===Plotting the Conspiracy===
Less powerful, and rivals of the Medici, the Pazzi family, along with [[Rodrigo Borgia]], the [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] of the Templar Order, planned a conspiracy to overthrow the [[House of Medici|Medici]] by killing the family's most prominent members, [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] and [[Guilani de' Medici|Guliani de'Medici]].
===The Conspiracy===
In 1476 [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze|Giovanni Auditore]][[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze| da Firenze]], Lorenzo's close friend and member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], discovered the involvement of the Pazzi family in a conspiracy against the Medici and managed to put [[Francesco de' Pazzi]] in jail. However, the plot had already reached members of the Medici government itself. [[Uberto Alberti]], the gonfaloniere of justice, freed Francesco, and executed Giovanni alongside his sons [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico]][[Federico Auditore da Firenze| Auditore da Firenze]] and [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio]][[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze| Auditore da Firenze]] for treason, removing the [[House of Auditore|Auditore family]] from Florence.

With Giovanni dead, there was nothing stopping the Pazzi, until Ezio, Giovanni's only surviving son, decided to avenge his family's murder. Joining with his uncle [[Mario Auditore|Mario]][[Mario Auditore da Firenze| Auditore da Firenze]] and his [[mercenaries]], Ezio infiltrated [[San Gimignano]]. There he witnessed a meeting between the Pazzi family and Rodrigo Borgia. Ezio then killed [[Vieri de' Pazzi]], the youngest of the Pazzi conspirators.

===The Battle at the Duomo===
In 1478, Ezio returned to Florence to spy on the Pazzi as they were meeting with other Templars in the catacombs under the [[Santa Maria Novella]] church. It was in this meeting that they planned the assassinations of both Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Guliani de' Medici. Among the conspirators were [[Stefano da Bagnone]], [[Bernardo Baroncelli]], [[Francesco Salviati]], [[Antonio Maffei]], [[Jacopo de' Pazzi|Jacopo]][[Jacopo de' Pazzi| de' Pazzi]] and Francesco de' Pazzi. Rodrigo Borgia led the meeting and informed the conspirators that they had been given "spiritual" and military support from [[Wikipedia:Pope Sixtus IV|Pope Sixtus IV]].

The next day, the conspirators executed their plan. They publicly attacked the Medici brothers in front of the Duomo with Francesco and Bernardo brutally stabbed Giuliano to death. At the same time, Stefano and Antonio severely wounded Lorenzo, but fled when he drew his sword. Francesco and others continued to attack Lorenzo, but withdrew when Ezio Auditore da Firenze intervened. Lorenzo was forced to retreat to his [[Palazzo Medici|Palazzo]], while Pazzi forces engaged Medici loyalists in earnest.

Francesco gained control of the [[Palazzo della Signoria]], but Medici forces continued to resist. Meanwhile, Ezio fought his way to the roof of the palazzo and confronted Francesco. Francesco fled immediately, but was pursued, hunted down, and killed by Ezio.

===The Conspiracy's Failure===
When Jacopo arrived at the Palazzo with the support of many Florentine [[citizens]], it was far too late; Francesco's corpse had already been hung from the roof. After their plot failed, the conspirators fled Florence to hide in the city of San Gimignano and in the countryside of Tuscany. Despite this, Ezio hunted down and slew all of the co-conspirators. Jacopo went to plead his case to Rodrigo Borgia, but was instead fatally wounded and used as bait to trap Ezio. Ezio fought his way out of the trap and ended Jacopo's suffering, and the Pazzi family with it. With its ruling family gone, San Gimignano was taken over by the Medici.

With the rule of the Medici, Lorenzo stripped the Pazzi family from everything and threw them into prison, even those who played no part in the conspiracy.

==Trivia==
*The Pazzi's personal guards are the only guards to patrol Florence, until Sequence 4. This is odd, since the Medici guards do not appear in Florence from 1476, until 1478 even though the Medici were in power.
*Francesco de' Pazzi is the only non-Assassin to have performed a [[Leap of Faith]] in [[Assassin's Creed II|''Assassin's Creed II'']], and can be difficult to pursue due to his exceptional free-running ability.
*There is also another unnamed member of the Pazzi family, Francesco de Pazzi's cousin whom Ezio assassinates in an [[Assassination Contract|assassination contract]]. It is unknown whether this family member was involved in the cosnpiracy or if he was even a Templar.
*The Pazzi family had members fight during the First Crusade during the Siege of [[Jerusalem]], the first Christian soldier to climb over the walls of Jerusalem was Pazzo Pazzi, an ancestor of the 15th century Pazzi family.
*The term ''pazzi'', roughly translated, means "crazy."
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]'' it is stated that the Pazzi emblem is two dolphins on a blue background, yet in ''Assassin's Creed II'', it is shown as two dolphins on a red background.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="170" orientation="none" captionalign="left">
Zw-francescodepazzi.png|Francesco de'Pazzi
Zw-vieridepazzi.png|Vieri de'Pazzi
Zw-thepazziconspirators.png|Jacopo de'Pazzi and the Pazzi Conspirators
Assassins creed II 3.jpg|Francesco attacking Giuliano, with Ezio trying to stop him.
Jacopo de Pazzi's death.jpg|Jacopo's Death
Francesco hanged from that building.jpg|Francesco's Death
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