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Ezio at the Carnevale celebration

The Carnevale is an annual event held in Venice, Italy known for the extravagant costumes and decorated masks. Believed to have started in 1162, it became an official tradition in Renaissance.^[1]

People, civilians and noblemen alike, celebrated the festival playing games and competitions in the fair and involving in various activities such as dancing and watching entertainers and performers in the streets and city squares. The environment was vibrant with people garbing in colorful and unique dresses and putting on different dominoes and masks, with fireworks also being an integral component of the festival.

History

In 1486, after failing to save the Doge of Venice from a plot of the Templars led by Rodrigo Borgia, Assassin Ezio Auditore returned to the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci in order to seek his assistance after being falsely accused of murder of the Doge instead of the actual murdurer Carlo Grimaldi, whom Ezio had dispatched only moments later after the incident. Leonardo tried to erase Ezio's wariness of the situation by telling him that the time for Carnevale had arrived and since everybody wore masks, hiding his identity was not a problem. Borrowing a mask from Leonardo to remain undetected, Ezio went to the Dorsoduro district on Leonardo's advice to met with Antonio de Magianis at a Teodora Contanto's brothel.

At the brothel, after gaining Teodora's trust by killing the murderer of one of her employees, she informed Ezio that the new Templar appointed Doge Marco Barbarigo would be exposed because he would leave the Palazzo Ducale that same night, in order to host a party he'd thrown himself. But in order to enter the party, Ezio would have to hold of a Golden Mask, which could not be forged because each one of them were numbered.

Ezio then went to the gaming section of the Carnevale, where an announcer was announcing that one Golden Mask was up for grab for whoever competed and won the four Carnevale games. Ezio participated in and won all the four games, but the game conductor was bribed by Silvio Barbarigo, who along with Dante Moro had been watching these events unfold from amongst the crowd, to award the Golden Mask to Dante.

But the Assassins planned to steal the Golden Mask from Dante and enter the party. Ezio managed to pickpocket the mask from Dante's personnel and hence gained a way to enter the party.^[2]

Leonardo informing Ezio of Cristina's presence in the Carnevale

While on the way to the party, Ezio met Leonardo who informed that Cristina Vespucci was in Venice for the Carnevale, along with her husband Manfredo Soderini. Ezio, planning to chance a meeting with Cristina, wrote a letter summoning her to meet him in an alleyway. Mistaking Ezio to be her husband, Cristina and Ezio kissed. However, when she discovered it was Ezio, she pushed him away angrily, stating incredulously that she hadn't seen him in eight years. As Ezio attempted to explain himself, Cristina interrupted him by saying that she had loved him, and not her fiance, all those years ago, yet he had abandoned her to be married. She coldly said that his chance had passed, and told him to never look for her again.^[3]

After his meeting with Cristina, Ezio resumed his way to the party. Ezio managed to enter the party, however Dante arrived moments later to alert guards of Ezio's presence. Managing to avoid any guards, Ezio waited until Marco came out of his cabin on the nearby ship to deliver a speech. Ezio then killed Marco, using his recently acquired hidden gun, managing to time his shot with the firework explosions.^[2]

Trivia

Even after the events of the Carnevale, the citizens will continue to celebrate it for the remainder of the game, albeit without fireworks, in the district of Dorsoduro.
Ezio cannot change outfits during the Carnevale.