Girolamo Riario

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|name = Girolamo Riario
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|imgdesc = Girolamo being stabbed by [[Ludovico Orsi]].
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|birth = Savona, Italy
|death = Forli, Romagna, Italy
|period = [[Renaissance]]
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|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
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'''Girolamo Riario''' (1443 - 14 April 1488) was Lord of [[Forlì]] and husband of [[Caterina Sforza]]. He was the father of [[Bianca Riario|Bianca]] and [[Ottaviano Riario]].

==Biography==
Born in [[wikipedia:Savona|Savona]], Riario was the son of [[wikipedia:Paolo Riario|Paolo Riario]] and [[wikipedia:Bianca dela Rovere|Bianca della Rovere]]. He was a nephew of [[Pope Sixtus IV]], who granted him the seignory of [[wikipedia:Imola|Imola]], as a dowry for his marriage with Caterina Sforza (daughter of [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]], [[wikipedia:Duke of Milan|Duke of Milan]]) in 1473. He took control of Forlì four years later.

Girolamo was an enemy of [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] and the latter had hired the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] to thwart several of Girolamo's plans, which was succesfully done.<ref name="Assassin's Creed II">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

By 1488, Girolamo had joined the [[Templars|Templar Order]] and was assigned to make a map of all the [[Codex]] pages scattered all throughout Italy. The same year, Caterina, an ally of the Assassin Order, hired the [[House of Orsi|Orsi brothers]] to kill Girolamo, because he was a Templar and partly because he had been, in her words, ''"a lousy father, boring in bed, and a pain in [her] ass"''. They looted his house and stabbed him in the chest, in front of his daughter, Bianca.<ref name="Assassin's Creed II" />

==Trivia==
*In real history, he was one of the [[Pazzi]] conspirators against Lorenzo de' Medici, but he has not been identified as this in the game yet (though he works with the Templars).
*Some of [[Romagna]]'s [[Assassination Contract|assassination contracts]] involve killing his soldiers and agents.
*Aside from the database entry about the Orsi Brothers, Girolamo Riario can be seen in the game (albeit from the back). When Ezio and Leonardo are discussing Caterina, she and her husband can be seen arguing in the background: [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] even points him out during their conversation.

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