Caterina Sforza

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Caterina Sforza (1463 - 28 May 1509) was the Countess of Forlì and Imola and the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. She married the Pope's nephew, Girolamo Riario, at only 14 years of age. Girolamo later became the Count of Forlì and Imola. She is depicted as a strong, fierce woman with a dirty mouth, but also seems to be quite maternal and caring. Her actions of being foul mouthed were depicted in Sequence 12.

She is seen at the ending of Sequence 6, where after somehow trapping herself on a small rock in the middle of a lake, Ezio Auditore da Firenze came and helped her back to land. Because he helped her, Caterina thanked Ezio by telling the guard of the Venetian ship to grant Ezio passage on the ship in order to get to Venice, and to use it whenever he wants to or needs to.

While sailing away from Forlì, Ezio stated that Caterina was "[his] next conquest", before being reprimanded by Leonardo da Vinci, who explained Caterina's importance to Ezio and remarked that seducing her would not be such a good idea. Leonardo described her as being "as powerful and dangerous as she is young and beautiful". Ezio replied that makes Caterina his "type" of lady.

Caterina and Ezio meet again during the Battle of Forli sequence. He is accompanied by Niccolò Machiavelli. Caterina tells Ezio that she had her most recent husband, Girolamo Riario, killed by the Orsi brothers for he was a Templar and a number of different reasons, including being "boring in bed", "lazy father" and a "pain in her ass". When Ezio came to store the Piece of Eden in Forlí, the Orsi brothers came to the city once again to steal the Piece of Eden from Ezio and take control of Forlí. Ezio had to sneak inside the city and open its gates. Caterina took her soldiers to fight and retrieve her city. Ezio served in the battle as both a soldier and protector to Caterina. When the battle was won, the Orsi Brothers took Caterina's children hostage as a guise to steal the Piece of Eden. When they threatened to kill her children if she did not gave them the Apple, she lifted her skirt, and showing her genitals, cried that she had the instrument to make more. She did not want the brothers to think they were victorious, however she was desperate to get her children back and requested Ezio to retrieve them for her. Ezio left the city immediately, found the children and managed to kill the Orsi brothers, before having the Apple stolen again from him by Girolamo Savonarola.

Trivia

• In actual history, Caterina died on May 28th, 1509 at the age of 46, from pneumonia, after being exiled in Florence for 3 years.
• In the book, the scene where Ezio first meets her is a little different. She walks on the port as she is arguing with her husband, Girolamo Riario. Tired of her, he tells Caterina to sit in the nearest gondola. While she enters the boat, Girolamo then gives a powerful shove to the prow and goes. As the gondola goes farther from land, she begins to shout and Ezio who watched the scene, came in.

Gallery

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  Concept art.
• Portrait of Caterina Sforza, by Lorenzo di Credi, now in the Museum of Forlí.
  Portrait of Caterina Sforza, by Lorenzo di Credi, now in the Museum of Forlí.