Manfredo Soderini
- Ezio: "Do you love her?"
- Manfredo: "What!?"
- Ezio: "DO YOU LOVE HER? Cristina! The woman you're about to marry!"
- Manfredo: "Yes! I do! I swear, I do. Kill me here and I will die still loving her."
- —Ezio Auditore ensuring that Manfredo remained a good husband to Cristina, 1478.[src]
Manfredo Soderini (unknown – 1498) was a Florentine nobleman and the husband of Cristina Vespucci.[1][2]
Biography
By 1478, Manfredo was engaged to Cristina, whose father kept pestering her to choose someone to marry. While Cristina deeply loved Ezio Auditore, she had not seen him in two years, leading to her choosing Manfredo as her fiancé.
Manfredo, however, was a gambler and fell into debt, which led to him being confronted by a man whom he owed money to, at the end of a bridge under construction. Ezio, who had come to Florence to visit Cristina, happened upon the scene and rescued Manfredo from his attackers, before he threatened to kill him with his own hands should Manfredo not be a good husband to Cristina.[2]
In 1498, during the Bonfire of the Vanities, Manfredo and Cristina were attacked by the men of Girolamo Savonarola. Ezio Auditore once again encountered Manfredo, who was dying, and with his last breath, he told Ezio that Cristina was being chased and attacked by Savonarola's guards.[2]
Gallery
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Ezio holding Manfredo over the River Arno.
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Manfredo's final moments.
Trivia
- In Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, he was named "Manfredo d'Arzenta".
- Manfredo wore clothes that resembled Ezio's in his younger days, with a similar bracelet on his right arm and a similar vambrace on his left.
- There was a man in the novelization of Brotherhood called Piero Soderini, though it was unknown whether the two were related or not.
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