Bianca Riario

"Is this all the men you have to hold me? Stoti. (Fools.) It wont be enough. My mamma is fierce. We Sforza women are no wilting flowers. We may look pretty to the eye, but the eyes decieve. Just ask babbo. (father.) I hope you dont imagine I'm scared of you. You'd be sorely mistaken. My mamma would never let you hurt me."

―Bianca naïvely making fun of her captors, 1488.

Bianca Riario (March 1478 - 1522) was the daughter of Girolamo Riario and Caterina Sforza and sister to Ottaviano Riario.

Biography

Early Life

In 1484, at the age of 6, she witnessed the sacking of her family's palazzo in Rome and was carried by her warrior mother into a siege of the Castel Sant'Angelo. This was the first of many trauma's she would face in her youth. Afterwards her family moved to Forlì, where more horrific events would shape her. Shortly after Bianca's 10th birthday, her father, Girolamo, was stabbed to death and his naked body thrown into the middle of the town square. Then her family's palazzo was sacked again and she was kidnapped by the Orsi Brothers. Bianca was liberated from the Orsis by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and she returned to her mother.

Then, when she was 16, while out on a hunting expedition with her mother's new husband, Giacomo Feo, she witnessed his brutal ambush and assassination.

Later Life

In 1500, Bianca's mother was taken prisoner by Cesare Borgia and apparently raped by Rodrigo Borgia. Cesare then killed Bianca's husband, Astorre Manfredi III, in 1502. She married again, this time to a Count, Troilo I de' Rossi, who died in 1521, at which point, she decided to give up on life, and went to her grave sometime around 1522.

Trivia

• She, along with her siblings, and Petruccio Auditore are the only non-adult characters to appear in Assassin's Creed II.