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Ezio Auditore da Firenze ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttsjo audiˈtoːre da (f)fiˈrɛntse]) is a character in the video game series Assassin's Creed, an Italian Master Assassin who serves as the protagonist of the series' games set during the Italian Renaissance. His life and career as an Assassin are chronicled in Assassin's Creed II, II ...
Assassin's Creed II. Assassin's Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montréal and published by Ubisoft. [ 1] It is the second major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the sequel to 2007's Assassin's Creed. The game was first released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2009, and was later made ...
A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin.The phrase itself usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in the public square of Florence, Italy, on the occasion ...
Desmond Miles (13 March 1987 – 21 December 2012) (voiced by Nolan North) is the protagonist of the modern-day sections of the first five main games in the series.Born into the Assassin Brotherhood, he is a direct descendant of several prominent historical Assassins, including Aquilus, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward Kenway, and Ratonhnhaké:ton / Connor.
Italy. Died. 1478 (aged 34/35) Florence, Republic of Florence. Nationality. Italian. Francesco Salviati (1443 – 1478) was the archbishop of Pisa from 1474 to 1478. [1] He was one of the organisers of the Pazzi conspiracy, a plot to displace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic; he was executed after the failure of the plot.
November 20, 2009 – present. Media type. Print ( paperback ), e-book, audiobook. The Assassin's Creed series is a collection of novels by various authors, set within the fictional universe of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise created by Ubisoft. The books are set across various time periods and, like the games, revolve around the ...
The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the east of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre. [3] The city hosts some of Italy's culturally and artistically significant landmarks; it is also notable as the birthplace of painters Melozzo da Forlì and Marco Palmezzano, humanist historian Flavio Biondo, physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies is a two-part graphic novel series written by Guillaume Dorison and illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Hostache. The two volumes, titled Die Glocke and Project Rainbow, were published by Les Deux Royaumes in French on October 21, 2016, and December 1, 2017, respectively.