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January

1 January

• 1258: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire.
• 1804: Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared himself leader of the free republic of Saint-Domingue, and subsequently exterminated thousands of white people living in the country.

2 January

• 1500: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army led by Cesare Borgia. Mario Auditore was captured and Caterina Sforza was captured.

3 January

• 1480: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, age 21, tailed Jacopo de' Pazzi to a meeting with Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo at the Antico Teatro Romano outside San Gimignano. Borgia severely wounded Pazzi for his failure and had his guards ambush the Assassin, allowing himself and Barbarigo to escape.
• 1735: Reginald Birch visited the Kenways and tricked Haytham into revealing where Edward's journal was hidden.

7 January

• 1778: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templars and the Continental Army, stealing several army supplies from Valley Forge.

11 January

• 1165: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad was born in Masyaf to Maud and Umar Ibn-La'Ahad. Maud died of complications: her widowed husband Umar raised their child alone.

13 January

• 1129: The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly recognized during the Council of Troyes. Hugues de Payens became the Order's first public Grand Master.

15 January

• 1559: Queen Elizabeth I of England was coronated at Westminster Abbey, and began her rule using an Apple of Eden.

16 January

• 1765: Aveline de Grandpré rescued Thérèse, a young pregnant slave from a plantation, killing her owner's son and his men. Aveline's stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle arranged for Thérèse to be transported to Chichen Itza.

19 January

• 1425: The Yongle Emperor was assassinated by Li Tong.

20 January

• 1758: François Mackandal, Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood on Saint-Domingue, was publicly executed for attempting to poison the colony's white inhabitants.
• 2001: George W. Bush became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.

24 January

• 41: Roman emperor Caligula was assassinated by Leonius in Rome.

26 January

• 1778: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton entered the Smith and Company Brewery in New York to confront Benjamin Church, only to meet a decoy and get attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame. However, they learned Church had fled to Martinique.

29 January

• 1765: Aveline de Grandpré recovered stolen goods on behalf of her father Philippe Olivier de Grandpré's business partner Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent.

30 January

• 1948: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars to retrieve his Apple of Eden, after he had used it to lead a non-violent rebellion against British rule in India.

February

4 February

• 1765: Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, governor of New Orleans, was assassinated by Aveline de Grandpré for collaborating with the Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer.

15 February

• 1486: Ezio Auditore da Firenze won the games at Carnevale in Venice, but Silvio Barbarigo bribed the judges into giving the Golden Mask to Dante Moro. Ezio stole back the Mask and used it to gain access to Marco Barbarigo's party, where he assassinated Barbarigo with the Hidden Gun.

March

3 March

• 1481: In Romagna, Ezio Auditore da Firenze befriended Caterina Sforza, who secured him passage aboard a ship to Venice with Leonardo da Vinci.

5 March

• 1770: Achilles Davenport and Ratonhnhaké:ton came to Boston seeking supplies, and Achilles decided to rename the boy Connor. They witnessed Charles Lee cause the Boston Massacre, and Haytham Kenway framed the boy for causing it. Achilles requested Samuel Adams help Connor, aiding him in lowering his notoriety and getting him passage out of the city.

7 March

• 1778: Benjamin Church was killed by Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton aboard his ship off the coast of Martinique, where the pair recovered the stolen supplies for the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

10 March

• 1693: Edward Kenway was born to Linette Hopkins and Bernard Kenway in Swansea, Wales.

13 March

• 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a Templar puppet, was killed in a bomb attack by the Narodnaya Volya, the public front of the Russian Assassins.

15 March

• 44 BCE: Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of conspirators including Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in Rome.

16 March

• 2014: The Assassin crew of the Altair II met with Galina Voronina, a member of the Assassin cell in the science city of Protvino, south of Moscow, who revealed that her cell had gone crazy from the Bleeding Effect because of their sessions in the Animus.

17 March

• 1778: Admiral Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in the Caribbean Sea, after he detonated Biddle's ship the Randolph.

18 March

• 1314: Jacques de Molay, the last public Grand Master of the Templar Order, was burned at the stake in Paris.
• 1770: After returning to the Davenport Homestead from Boston, Ratonhnhaké:ton received his Hidden Blades; rescued Terry from drowning; and was introduced to the Aquila and Robert Faulkner by Achilles Davenport.

20 March

• 2014: The Assassin cell in Protvino, which had been driven insane by the Bleeding Effect, was eliminated by Galina Voronina.

April

4 April

• 1756: Ratonhnhaké:ton was born to Kaniehtí:io in Kanatahséton.

11 April

• 1713: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession but leaving privateers like Edward Kenway unemployed.

12 April

• 1479: Francesco Salviati was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Tuscany.

14 April

1478: Vieri de' Pazzi was assassinated by his childhood rival Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano.

18 April

• 1754: Haytham Kenway assassinated Miko at the Royal Opera House in London, and stole his amulet.

19 April

• 1478: Mario Auditore explained to his nephew Ezio the mysteries of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex and showed him the Sanctuary beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni.
• 1744: Haytham Kenway undertook his first assassination, dispatching a greedy merchant threatening the Templars' interests in Liverpool.
• 1775: The British Army and colonial militia fought at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Ratonhnhaké:ton helped claim victory for the colonists.

20 April

• 1521: The Zhengde Emperor of China died without an heir, leaving the country in a state of chaos.
• 1754: Haytham Kenway started his voyage to the New World aboard the Providence.
• 2010: A large amount of oil was spilled in the Gulf of Mexico; Abstergo-controlled British Petroleum made millions of profit cleaing up the oil.

21 April

• 1971: François Duvalier, the President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins.

23 April

• 1661: King Charles II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

25 April

• 1478: Ezio Auditore da Firenze ventured beneath Santa Maria Novella where he eavesdropped on the Templars who conspired to destroy the House of Medici. He also discovered the tomb of Darius.

26 April

• 1478: Guilani de' Medici was assassinated by Francesco de' Pazzi, but Ezio Auditore da Firenze prevented him from similarly killing Lorenzo de' Medici. Florence descended into war between the Medici and Pazzi, and the former emerged victorious after Ezio assassinated Francesco.

27 April

• 1554: Monteriggioni was conquered by the Republic of Florence, after Giovannino Zeti had given Florence the keys to the town.

May

1 May

• 1757: Believing the Assassins were coming to kill her, Aveline de Grandpré's mother Jeanne left New Orleans with the help of Madeleine de L'Isle and traveled to Chichen Itza, Mexico.

3 May

• 1436: Giovanni Auditore da Firenze was born in Monteriggioni.
• 1479: Bernardo Baroncelli was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano.

12 May

• 1003: Pope Sylvester II, a Templar leader, was branded a heretic for his support of scientific development and burned at the stake.

14 May

• 1509: The Battle of Agnadello was fought between France and Venice. Though the French were victorious, Bartolomeo d'Alviano kept the Shroud of Eden out of French possession.

20 May

• 1520: The Aztecs at Tenochtitlan were massacred by Spanish soldiers; the Assassin Giovanni Borgia retrieved a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.

21 May

• 2013: Gavin Banks received the codex of William Miles, and a letter, wherein Miles named him his successor as leader of the Assassin Order.

23 May

• 1498: Girolamo Savonarola was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze to spare him the pain of being burned at the stake.

27 May

• 1521: Zhu Houcong became the Jiajing Emperor of China, with aid from the Templars.

29 May

• 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople with an Apple of Eden.

30 May

• 1431: Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake by Templars seeking to possess her Sword of Eden.

June

7 June

• 1341: Al-Nasir Muhammad, the ninth Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, was assassinated by his servant, Leila, a Templar agent.

10 June

• 323 BCE: Alexander the Great died after being poisoned by Iltani.
• 1747: Juan Vedomir was killed by Haytham Kenway after he betrayed the Templars. Haytham recovered Edward Kenway's journal, which Vedomir had been assigned to decipher, for Reginald Birch.

15 June

• 1775: Ratonhnhaké:ton accompanied Samuel Adams and John Hancock to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where he watched George Washington be sworn in as Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Connor noticed Charles Lee sitting behind, so Adams restrained him from attacking the Templar by introducing him to Washington.

16 June

• 1778: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton attacked and captured several British soldiers in New York to discern the British Army's plans, learning that they planned to march from Philadelphia to New York.

17 June

• 1775: John Pitcairn was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He recovered a letter from his uniform which revealed a plot to George Washington, and passed this information to Israel Putnam.
• 1778: At Valley Forge, Haytham Kenway revealed to Connor that George Washington had ordered an attack on his village, Kanatahséton. Connor angrily broke his ties to both men, admonishing Haytham for witholding this information until it was opportune, and rode off to prevent the attack. However, he was forced to kill Kanen'tó:kon in the attempt.
• 1952: Jack Parsons was killed in an explosion in his laboratory caused by Abstergo Industries.

18 June

• 1747: Haytham Kenway returned Edward Kenway's journal to Reginald Birch in Prague. Birch informed Haytham that his mother Tessa had died from injuries sustained in a fall.

20 June

• 1747: Aveline de Grandpré was born to Philippe Olivier de Grandpré and his plaçée Jeanne in New Orleans.

21 June

• 1604: Elizabeth Jane Weston and her husband Johannes Leo attended a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prague.

23 June

• 1765: Baptiste was assassinated by Aveline de Grandpré in the Louisiana Bayou.

24 June

• 1459: Ezio Auditore da Firenze was born to Maria and Giovanni Auditore da Firenze in Florence.
• 1834: Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan uncovered a murderous dispute between a Templar violinist and an Assassin doctor.

25 June

• 1488: Ezio Auditore da Firenze and several other Assassins fought off Rodrigo Borgia and his minions, gaining possession of the Apple of Eden from Cyprus.

28 June

• 1776: Ratonhnhaké:ton was to be executed after being framed for plotting to kill George Washington. However, the remorseful Haytham Kenway threw a knife at the rope, freeing Connor and enabling him to stop Thomas Hickey from assassinating the Commander. Israel Putnam arrived to apologize for the mistake.
• 1778: The Continental Army emerged victorious over the British at the Battle of Monmouth, despite Charles Lee's attempts to sabotage George Washington's position. After Ratonhnhaké:ton informed the Commander of his treachery, Lee was court-martialed.

30 June

• 1501: Caterina Sforza escaped imprisonment in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with aid from the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
• 1520: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers, including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia, made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan known as the Night of Sorrow.
• 1908: The Tunguska explosion occurred when Nikola Tesla sent a burst of energy to a Templar research station in Tunguska, where a Staff of Eden was kept; the Assassin Nikolai Orelov was the only survivor.

July

3 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway confronted his former nursemaid Betty, whom he suspected of having a relationship with Jack Digweed, the man who betrayed his father Edward.

4 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway intercepted a letter from Betty for the treacherous Jack Digweed addressed to Germany.
• 1776: Achilles Davenport and Ratonhnhaké:ton came to Philadelphia to find George Washington, just as the signing of the Declaration of Independence commenced. Samuel Adams informed Connor Washington had returned to New York to hold off the British, so he just watched John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin sign the document.

7 July

• 1488: Ludovico and Checco Orsi were assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on the outskirts of Forlì, but Checco managed to severely wound him. As he fell unconscious, Ezio dropped the Apple of Eden, which was picked up and taken by Girolamo Savonarola.

9 July

• 1755: Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway after French, Abenaki, Lenape and Shawnee forces ambushed his expedition.

11 July

• 1486: Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro were assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, while Bartolomeo d'Alviano's mercenaries captured the Arsenale di Venezia.
• 1774: William Johnson was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton after he threatened the Iroquois Chiefs during a meeting at Johnson Hall.

14 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway and Reginald Birch tracked down Jack Digweed in Germany, and discovered a British soldier torturing him. Kenway gave chase, while Birch killed Digweed to prevent him revealing the truth about Edward Kenway's death. Haytham killed the soldier, but learned his father was an Assassin, and left to pursue another soldier, Tom Smith, whom he had spotted leaving earlier, having discovered they were in Edward Braddock's regiment.

20 July

• 1969: The Apollo 11 Moon landing took place, allowing NASA to recover an Apple of Eden.

30 July

• 1983: Galina Voronina and her twin sister were born to a Russian Assassin scientist and an unidentified man.

August

2 August

• 1775: Achilles Davenport introduced Ratonhnhaké:ton to Benjamin Tallmadge to help in uncovering the plot against George Washington. He told Connor to find Thomas Hickey in New York.

8 August

• 2012: Clay Kaczmarek committed suicide at an Abstergo Industries facility in Rome, though an artificial construct of him would live on inside the Animus.

10 August

• 210 BCE: Qin Shi Huang was assassinated by Wei Yu.

12 August

• 30 BCE: Cleopatra was assassinated by Amunet with an asp in Alexandria.
• 1257: The Fall of Masyaf: Hulagu Khan laid siege to the fortress, which Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered to be abandoned. After escorting Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out, he sealed himself with the Apple of Eden in his library and died at the age of 92.

September

5 September

• 1781: The French Navy, aided by the Aquila, emerged victorious over the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake.

7 September

• 1191: Robert de Sable was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad at the Battle of Arsuf.

11 September

• 1485: Emilio Barbarigo was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his Palazzo della Seta, allowing Antonio de Magianis to seize it as the new base of operations for Venice's thieves guild.

13 September

• 1770: Robert Faulkner taught Ratonhnhaké:ton how to sail the Aquila during their voyage to Martha's Vineyard, where they purchased cannons and recruited artillery officers. At Amanda Bailey's tavern, Connor almost had an altercation with Benjamin Church and Nicholas Biddle. While sailing home, Faulkner taught Connor how to command the ship in battle, just as they were attacked by British schooners and a frigate.

14 September

• 1321: Dante Alighieri was murdered by the Templars.

16 September

• 1781: Haytham Kenway was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton during the attack on Fort George in New York City. Afterwards, Connor recovered Haytham Kenway's journal.

24 September

• 1780: Major General Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army with help from John André, and attempted to surrender the garrison at West Point to the British Army, resulting in the Battle of West Point. Ratonhnhaké:ton ensured the Patriots' victory, but Arnold escaped by boat.

27 September

• 1770: Ratonhnhaké:ton returned to the Davenport Homestead from Martha's Vineyard, and received his Assassin robes from Achilles, who informally inducted him into the Brotherhood.

October

2 October

• 1782: Charles Lee was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, New Jersey. Connor took the Grand Temple Key hanging around his neck as a trophy.

4 October

• 1769: Ratonhnhaké:ton, aged 13, underwent a coming-of-age ritual where he communed with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball. He was told to seek the Assassin insignia to stop the Templars from discovering the sanctuary, and the Clan Mother instructed him he would find it by journeying east.

9 October

• 1757: Reginald Birch was killed by Jennifer Scott at his chateau near Troyes, avenging her father Edward Kenway. Her half-brother Haytham Kenway was wounded during the attack.

12 October

• 1773: Ratonhnhaké:ton was informed by Kanen'tó:kon that William Johnson was seeking to purchase their people's land. As he left, he encountered the injured hunter Myriam. Achilles Davenport tended to her, while Connor used his new rope darts to dispatch the poachers who wounded her.

13 October

• 1307: The Knights Templar were branded heretics by Pope Clement V, on behalf of King Philip IV of France.

19 October

• 1781: The British Army surrendered at Yorktown, effectively losing the American Revolutionary War; George Washington retrieved an Apple of Eden at Yorktown.

27 October

• 1768: The Louisiana Mentor Agaté ordered Aveline de Grandpré to assassinate the New Orleans governor Antonio de Ulloa. However, she spared him out of sympathy for his family, and after he revealed the Templars were transporting slaves to excavate artifacts in Mexico.

29 October

• 1769: After fighting bandits seeking to seize the Davenport Homestead in Massachusetts, Achilles Davenport chose to recruit Ratonhnhaké:ton, thereby reviving the Colonial Assassins.
• 1888: The Borki train disaster took place, foiling Nikolai Orelov's assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

November

3 November

• 1769: Ratonhnhaké:ton spent his day training and learning under Achilles Davenport at his homestead in Massachusetts.

6 November

• 1773: Ratonhnhaké:ton arrived in Boston and sought the help of Samuel Adams in preventing William Johnson from purchasing the Iroquois' lands. He put this off to help Stephane Chapheau, who was being evicted from his home by Redcoats.

7 November

• 1917: As the Russian Revolution concluded, Vladimir Lenin requested Nikolai Orelov assassinate Tsar Nicholas II. Infiltrating the palace in Saint Petersburg, Orelov chose to spare the Tsar, and only asked for information on the Staff of Eden's whereabouts.
• 1919: Orelov was staying at a tavern with his family when the Palmer Raids commenced, taking away his wife Anna and daughter Nadya for deportation. Nikolai retrieved his son Innokenti, whom he was forced to raise alone.

11 November

• 1760: Ratonhnhaké:ton, age 4, was assaulted by Charles Lee on the outskirts of Kanatahséton. Meanwhile, George Washington attacked the village: Ratonhnhaké:ton awoke to find his village on fire, and returned to witness his mother Kaniehtí:io's death, which he blamed Lee for.

12 November

• 1759: The Louisiana Mentor Agaté recruited Aveline de Grandpré into the Assassins.

15 November

• 1773: After meeting with Samuel Adams, William Molineux and Stephane Chapheau, Ratonhnhaké:ton embarked on destroying William Johnson's tea smuggling operation.
• 1917: Nikolai Orelov travelled to Krasnoyarsk to speak to Khioniya Guseva after the artifact possessed by Grigori Rasputin. She told him about how he survived her assassination attempt, and used the artifact to force her to multilate herself. At her request, Nikolai killed her to end her pain.

22 November

• 1917: Nikolai Orelov exhumed Grigori Rasputin's body to recover the shard of the Staff of Eden he wore around his neck. Afterwards, he informed his wife Anna they were leaving Russia and that he was abandoning the Brotherhood.

30 November

• 1524: Ezio Auditore da Firenze died on a bench in Florence, aged 65: his wife Sofia Sartor and daughter Flavia Auditore were present.

December

3 December

• 1735: Tom Barrett, Edith, Edward Kenway and two British soldiers were murdered by mercenaries hired by Reginald Birch, who stole Kenway's journal and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer Scott.
• 1773: Stephane Chapheau went on a rampage against British troops in Boston after his money was stolen. Ratonhnhaké:ton defended him but also admonished him for his behavior, instructing him to seek out and only kill the leader of William Johnson's men. Afterwards, Connor invited him to join the Colonial Assassins.

4 December

• 1725: Haytham Kenway was born to Tessa and Edward Kenway in London.
• 1733: Haytham celebrated his eighth birthday at White's Chocolate House, where his father Edward introduced him to their property manager Reginald Birch. On the way home, Birch defended Tessa Kenway from a mugger, but Edward stopped him just short of killing him.

10 December

• 1735: Edward Kenway was buried in London. Afterwards, Reginald Birch revealed to Haytham he was a Templar, and that he would be accompanying Haytham to find his half-sister Jenny in Europe.

11 December

• 1735: Reginald Birch introduced Haytham Kenway to Edward Braddock, who would be in-charge of finding Jack Digweed, whom Haytham suspected of betraying Edward Kenway.

16 December

• 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession begins, forcing Reginald Birch and Haytham Kenway to put off their search for Jennifer Scott and to settle in a chateau near Troyes.
• 1773: The Boston Tea Party took place.

17 December

• 2013: Gavin Banks and Emmanuel Barraza met with the Assassin cell in Osaka, discovering that they had taken up the guise of the Onmoraki-Gumi.

21 December

• 2012: Desmond Miles died to save the Earth from the solar flare by touching the Eye; however, he also released Juno from imprisonment in the Grand Temple.

24 December

• 1914: Erich Albert was assassinated during the Christmas Truce of [World War I]].

25 December

• 1776: George Washington and several Colonial Assassins including Ratonhnhaké:ton crossed the Delaware River and conquer Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin, a Templar puppet, became the leader of Russia.
• 2003: Vanessa made the Beagle 2 landing appear to be a failure so only Abstergo Industries could obtain the information it uncovered.

26 December

• 1476: Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, was assassinated by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati and Carlo Visconti. Giovanni Auditore da Firenze attempted to question Lampugani, but the assassin was killed by Sforza's Moorish bodyguard before he had a chance.

27 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, age 17, slept with Cristina Vespucci: a few hours later, he was discovered by her father and narrowly escaped his guards.

28 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze beat up Duccio de Luca on behalf of his sister Claudia; collected feathers for his brother Petruccio; and was introduced by his mother Maria to Leonardo da Vinci. After performing an errand for his father Giovanni, Ezio returned home to find his father and brothers had been arrested.
• 1499: Ezio Auditore da Firenze confronted Pope Alexander VI in the Sistine Chapel before opening the Vatican Vault. He encountered Minerva, who had a message for Ezio's descendant Desmond Miles.

28 December

• 1499: Ezio Auditore da Firenze defeated Rodrigo Borgia at the entrance the Vatican Vault, and received a message from the Precursor Minerva.

29 December

• 1476: Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio Auditore da Firenze were hanged by Uberto Alberti on false charges of treason. That night, Ezio recovered the bodies and burned them, and then sought refuge with Paola's courtesans.

30 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze came to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, where the polymath deciphered the Codex in Ezio possession to repair his Giovanni Auditore's Hidden Blade.
• 1916: Grigori Rasputin was assassinated in the early hours of the morning.

31 December

• 1476: Uberto Alberti was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze at the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence.
• 1502: Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were killed by Micheletto Corella on orders of Cesare Borgia.