Ezio<\/a> was born in Florence on 24 June 1459, as the second son of Giovanni and Maria Auditore. He appeared to be stillborn, but, after some words of encouragement from his father, he began to cry, leading his father to call him a \u201cfighter\u201d.<\/p>\nUp until the age of 17, Ezio lived a life of luxury amidst the members of the Florentine noble class; he was apprenticed to the renowned banker Giovanni Tornabuoni, who worked alongside Giovanni Auditore\u2019s banking business, but was all the while unaware of his father\u2019s allegiance to the Assassin Order.<\/p>\n
In the year 1476, Ezio, his older brother Federico, and friends of the family fought with Vieri de\u2019 Pazzi and his gang. Just before the fight, Ezio received a gash down across his lip \u2013 caused by Vieri throwing a stone \u2013 which would scar, and remain for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n
Ezio\u2019s mother introduced him to an artist that she patronized, Leonardo da Vinci. On the walk home, Leonardo struck up a conversation, beginning a friendship between the two men that would last throughout their later lives.<\/p>\n
Ezio returned home after a errand for his father to find his home ransacked, his father and brothers missing, and his mother and sister dead. Learning that city guards had been ordered to arrest Giovanni and all of his sons, Ezio made his way to the Palazzo della Signoria, where his father and brothers were being held.<\/p>\n
Climbing the building and speaking to his father through his cell window, Ezio was instructed to find a chest hidden in his office, take everything out of it, and deliver a sealed letter to Uberto Alberti, Gonfaloniere of Florence and a close friend of the Auditore family. Doing so, Ezio found his father\u2019s Assassin robes, a broken Hidden Blade, and a letter containing details of a plot against the city of Florence and the Auditore family.<\/p>\n
Ezio brought the incriminating documents to Uberto, and was assured that his family would be released the following day, when the information was presented as evidence of their innocence. Ezio then traveled to the home of Cristina Vespucci, where he spent the night once again.<\/p>\n
The next day, Ezio returned to the Piazza della Signoria to find Uberto presiding over the execution of his family.<\/p>\n
Giovanni declared their innocence, citing the information given to Uberto as evidence, but the Gonfaloniere denied any knowledge of such information. Ezio shouted that Uberto was lying, but his efforts to prevent the execution were ultimately in vain.<\/p>\n
Ezio could only watch helplessly from the crowd as his father and brothers were hanged. When he attempted to charge the gallows to avenge his kin, Uberto ordered the city guards to kill him.<\/p>\n
Ezio fled the Piazza della Signoria and sought shelter in a brothel run by the sister of the Auditore housemaid, a courtesan named Heather. He then fled Florence to his Uncle Mario\u2019s home Monteriggioni. It was here he learned about the Assassin Order, and his heritage.<\/p>\n
After learning of his heritage from his uncle, Mario Auditore, Ezio began his Assassin training and set about on his quest for vengeance against the Templar Order, and their Grand Master, Rodrigo Borgia, who had ordered the execution of his kin.<\/p>\n
During his travels, Ezio managed to not only unite the pages of the Codex, written by Alta\u00efr Ibn-La\u2019Ahad, Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, but also to save the cities of Florence, Venice, and Rome from Templar rule.<\/p>\n
It was in Venice he discovered about Vampires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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