The reverse side of Assassin’s Creed 2.
I welcome everyone whom I still managed to lure here the name and preview. During my school youth, many of my friends admired the Assassin ‘Creed series and said that you can naturally learn the story on it. In those years, I also shared this opinion, but the years are going and you begin to question more and more doubt everything that you hear. At some point in my life, I decided to check whether the second part of the series tells us about the events that were, and about the people that they lived in Italy of the 15th century. But this game is not famous for the one. The developers worked and placed in riddles that Ezio finds, many things that are not so easy to notice, and if you still have been noticed, it is not so easy to understand. What I couldn’t pass by and tried to figure out all these things. Therefore, today I suggest you, together with me, plunge again in the beloved game, and possibly find out something new! The material turned out to be quite voluminous, so for those who are too lazy to read there is a video version, including the same small section with thoughts about the structure of the fraternity in the second part. Well, those who do not scare voluminous texts, I wish you a pleasant reading!
People and events that became the basis for the characters of the game.
This section contains a brief summary of people who really lived in Italy of the 15th century, as well as one extremely interesting event, which has become one of the turning point in the history of Florence. Let’s start with it.
Patzzi conspiracy.
Here we will talk about the conspiracy of a group of people whose purpose was the murder of Lorenzo and Juliano Medici, two brothers having an extremely great influence on Florence. As you could have guessed from the name, the Patzzi family, who envied and hated Medici, became the Orginizer of this attempt. But before moving directly to the attempt, I propose to briefly figure out what was the reason for Pazzi hatred to Medici.
J. Vasari. Portrait of Lorenzo Medici.
Posthumous portrait of Juliano Medici brushes Sandro Botticelli.
In 1427, the Medici family managed to achieve in Signoria the adoption of the law on progressive tax on property. This provided Medici with great popularity among the poor and middle segments of the population, but caused the discontent of other wealthy families of Florence – Albizzi, Strozzi, Pazzi. One of the largest strokes for the Pazzi family was a point at which women could no longer inherit. Accordingly, the marriages that were concluded that the dear son -in -law will someday die, leaving some of their property new wives, became useless. In addition, it is worth considering that the Medici family has not been a “noble family” for a long time. Arriving in Florence in the 12th century, Medici began to engage in trade and usury, quickly putting on this condition. And only in 1414, when Kozimo Medici took Constessina de Bardi to his wife, they become nobles. True, other noble families who had a rich history of the nobility, which went deep into generations, still did not want to perceive them on the plain with them. And now, we can return to the conspiracy.
Constessina de Bardi.
In 1477, Pope Sixt IV wanted to take money for a purchase, not a lot of Bologna town of Imola, but the Medici, who disposed of his treasury, was refused because of which the dad lurked their offense against them. The reason for the refusal was that Imola was an important strategic object, the management of which Medici himself wanted to receive. Do not think, the Medici understood that they would bring trouble with this action, but they did not even imagine how much more.
To begin with, Sikst took the right to dispose of the papal treasury from Medici and, knowing that this would inflict a strong blow, handed it to the Pazzi family. Further, in order to control the situation in Florence, dad appointed his nephew by the cardinal of the city of Imola. Then the pontiff further narrowed the ring, making his protege Francesco Salviani Archbishop Piza. To which the Medici stated that they did not recognize the pontiff with an archbishop, and ordered not to let him into the city. Further, Sixtes recalls the monopoly right of the Medici to trade kvass, and this could already be considered an open announcement of the war.
However, no matter how hard the dad tried, he was not able to reduce the influence of Medici in the Senate, and then the head of the Semeytasva Pazzi, Jacopo, and the head of the family bank, Francesco, suggested killing the head of the Medici family, Lorenzo, and his younger brother Juliano. In addition to them, they also participated in the conspiracy: Bernardo Baronchelli, somewhere said that he was a banker, somewhere that was a merchant, and somewhere that he was a desperate adventurer-scientist, in a general personality is quite mysterious. Florentine Prolate Francesco Salviani, whom the Medici did not recognize as the Archbishop of Pizansky, which he naturally did not like. And Count Di Montesecko, commander of the military corps, which for some reason is not in the game.
The first attempt was a failure. Sikst sent his nephew Dzhirolamo Riario to Florence, notifying Medici about it, and hoping that they will arrange an appropriate reception on which both brothers can be killed. Medici naturally could not ignore this, so they went to the castle in which Dzhirolamo stopped. However, by coincidence, Juliano arrived and left a few hours before Lorenzo, and since they had to be killed at the same time, the attack had to be postponed. Moreover, Lorenzo invited the Cardinal and the entire Pazzi family to his villa, which could be a great chance, but this time Juliano also decided not to come to the feast arranged by his brother.
The next day, gathered in the Patzzi residence, the conspirators decided that on the next Sunday the cardinal would organize a solemn mass in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fior, where the murder should be done. However, Jacopo Patszi and Montesecko did not agree with this, saying that they would not attack kneeling people. They were not convinced even by the promises of the archbishop of the complete remission of sins by the pope. Then the conspirators turned to the priests of Stefano de Banion and Antonio Maffei, who also did not like the Medici and they were not tormented by remorse from the fact that bloodshed will occur in their church.
At the appointed time, when the cardinal lifted the holy gifts and the people knelt before them, the killers who stood near Lorenzo and Juliano attacked the brothers with daggers. First, Bernardo Bandini struck Juliano a dagger into the back of his head, and then Francesco stabbed another 19 stabs.
But the priests of Maffei and Stefano screwed up a little. Maffei missed the dagger, only easily injured Medici, and Stepheno had a roof and he start to yell instead of fighting. As a result, Lorenzo was quickly able to retreat.
Meanwhile, Jacopo Patszi – the head of the family – jumped on his horse and galloped along the streets, waving his sword and shouting “Freedom and the Republic!”But when the city found out about the death of Juliano, the embittered Florentines began to shout in response:” Nuclei!”, Hinting at the coat of arms of the Medici. Realizing that the townspeople were standing on the side of the Medici, Jacopo quickly went to his estate.
At the same time, Archbishop Salvian went to the Palace of Signoria to declare the government under his control, but it did not work out not fortunately. Crowds of embittered people gathered at the palace and brutally dealt with his guard, and Salviantti himself was taken into custody.
As a result, all the conspirators were seized and brought to the palace. Many were simply thrown out of the windows or hanged. The houses of all representatives of the Patzzi clan stolen. Francesco was taken to the Palace of Medici, where having subjected all the types of humiliations, he was hanged next to the Archbishop of Pisa, and then they threw the bodies to the crowd to the heap. With Jacopo did the same.
The two remaining priests quickly found, cut their noses and ears, and then also hung. Montesecko, who reported the involvement of Pope Sikst IV, was allowed to die from the sword. And the bandini who fled to Turkey simply drove away from the palace, and the ambassadors of Lorenzo accompanied him to his homeland, also forcing him to pay for his crime. The only ones who managed to avoid punishment is the cardinal and part -time nephew of Pope Girolamo Riario, well, the pope himself is the Roman Sixt IV.
Marco Barbarigo.
But to the great regret among the Venetian Templars, there were not many. More precisely one, and then there is nothing to tell about. The Barbarigo family was one of the richest families in Venice, and Marco himself was considered the richest. After Giovanni Mocenigo died due to the plague, Marco becomes 73rd, we’ll let Venice, but for the 9 months of his reign did not manage to do anything significant and on August 14, 1486, Marco quarreling with his brother Agostino, dies. And dies as they say from an excess of grief. Nobody is accurate to say for sure, but it is believed that Agostino wanted death to his brother, well, maybe it somehow influenced Marco’s death, I don’t know. Everything can be.
Portrait of the dozen brush of Domenico timid.
Coat of arms of Marko Barbarigo.
Chekko and Ludovico Orsi.
Now let’s recall Girolamo Riario, who managed to avoid punishment after an attempt on the Medici, but his long and happy life did not work out. Dzhirolamo was the governor of the city of Forli, and a long -standing good friend Ludovico Orsi. Moreover, so good that Ludovico was one of the first to whom Girolamo allowed to pick up his newborn child. But somehow, these two managed to quarrel quite hard, and so much that Ludovico began to fear for his life. Then he found out that his brother Chekko owed Jirolamo as many as 200 ducats. Well, so that you understand: a natural marble statue at that moment cost 120 ducats, a small three -story house from 100 to 200, or this is an annual salary of 7 carpenters. For such money, in general, you can kill, so now Chekko also became scary and the brothers decided to act first. Having united with several conspirators on April 14, 1488, Chekko came to the count, saying that he wanted to show the evidence that he would soon repay the debt. But instead of a letter he took out a dagger from under the cloak and began to strike. Hearing the noise in the castle, people began to accumulate on the square. It is worth noting that Jirolamo was not very popular, and when the conspirators threw his naked body out the window, the rebels immediately broke into the fortress of Lutai, all that could be carried away. But despite the murder of the count, Orsy did not work to capture the city, the reasons for this will be described a little later. Throwing wives and children Ludoviko and Chekko fled, and their father had to pay for the crime. And he paid not money. His legs tied to the horse and carried the poor fellow on the paving stones until his skull split. It sounds quite scary.
Girolamo Savonarola.
Probably the most interesting personality and not an unambiguous personality of that time, who even today has both supporters and opponents. Born in 1452 and having studied for seven years in the Dominican Monastery in 1482, he came to Florence to carry the word of God. But here’s the bad luck, while the Florentines lived, as they say, on a wide foot, spending a public treasury on luxurious feasts and other charms of life. And then some monk appears and begins to brand all human weaknesses on every corner. The people naturally did not really like this and his sermons were not awarded.
Seeing this, the leadership of the Dominican Order transferred him to a small town of San Jaminano, where ordinary hard workers lived, and now they had already listened to his sermons. Years went on, Jirolamo gained experience, as well as followers, and thanks to his speeches about the apocalypse, he became very popular. And already in 1490, Lorenzo Medici seduced by the popularity of Jirolamo transports him to Florence.
At first he preached in the courtyard of the monastery of San Marko, but soon he was not enough for the courtyard, and he began to preach in the temple, and this I will tell you a great honor and not everyone likes it like that. After a couple of months, the temple of San Marko no longer accommodated everyone and in 1491 sermons had to be transferred to the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fjore and then it rushed. Savonarola began to expose in the sins of all to whom he could reach. He accused the church of corruption, the Florentine nobility of corruption calling for repentance and asceticism, and this worked! The ladies shot jewelry and came to church in modest dresses, psalms sang on the streets instead of songs, and street gangs turned into a sacred police. And after the death of Lorenzo, at the request of the townspeople, the Office of Florence passed to Girolamo, which completely untied his hands.
More and more politics appears in his sermons, he began to write treatises about management, and letters to kings, in which he told how to rule this world. And the people began to listen more and more. They burned books and paintings, on gambling players imposed huge fines, bankers and merchants distributed dishonestly acquired money, and executed lecherous and homosexuals. Then the townspeople gather a large advice, but he could not function normally, everyone tried to get a larger piece for himself, production in the city rose and as a result, hunger began.
The people slowly begin to remember how well they lived with Lorenzo, Girolamo has more and more enemies, and here the Pope Alexander VI forbids him to preach. I will explain that from that day Savonarola arrived in Florence, he criticized Rome. When Rodrigo Borgia became dad in 1492, in fact, having bought this place for himself, criticism only intensified, and the new dad really did not like it. And now, the opponents of Savonarola decided to enlist the help of the Church, sending Demo to Rome that Dzhirolamo in their sermons began to allow himself unheard of liberties. However, it was not possible to silence him with Rodrigo, and then he decided to change tactics by inviting him to become a cardinal. But this only exacerbated the situation only by making Savonarola’s sermons even more sharp. In response to this on May 12, 1497, Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Girolamo from the church, and for some time it helped.
In 98, Savonarola again made https://play-jango.co.uk/ a sermon, after which the dad sent a letter to the Florentine Council, in which he forbade the dijirolamo to let go to the temples, and also threatened to excommunicate all who will listen to the heretic sermons from the church. After that, people began to naturally shy away from Savonarola and allies he had very few. In April of the same year, Dzhirolamo was taken into custody and imprisoned in prison, where they forced to torture false confessions. On May 23, 1498, Savonarola was hanged with a huge gathering of the people, and then burned.
Nowadays, the ideas of Jirolamo still have popularity, and they even put monuments to him, for example, Ferrar.
Rodrigo Borgia.
Here you will need a disclemer. During its life, the Borgia family gained a huge number of enemies who, by all possible ways, denigrated Rodrigo and rewrote the story. Therefore, it may well be that many things that will be said later, just fiction of ill -wishers. Now let’s go!)
Among the famous clans of Italy of the Renaissance, the Borgia family occupies a special and, I must say, by no means honorable place. His bad reputation developed during the reign of Pope Alexander VI – Rodrigo Lenzolo Borgia, one of the most depraved Roman dads of the Middle Ages.
Already from birth with Rodrigo there was something wrong. Although his mother John was married to Gottfried Lenzolo, she had a long relationship with her brother Alfonso Borgia. And the fruit of these relations was our today’s hero, which is why Godfried divorced his wife and refused to recognize Rodrigo as his son, but nevertheless he still loved his illegal son.
In his youth, Rodrigo was engaged in jurisprudence, but when in 1455 his real father became the new Pope Caliksti III, the Spaniard went to Rome, became an archbishop, received benefits, which is why his monthly income grew very well. However, he did not linger at his post for a long time, Calikst raised it and now he became Cardinal and Vice Chancellor of Curia, thus taking the second after the papal position. So he lived for a long time, somewhere establishing relations with other cardinals, somewhere not very, until in 1492, having bought a majority of votes, he became a new dad, Alexander VI. Immediately, two of his sons Cesare and Giovanni received the titles of the cardinals, and he soon married his daughter Lucretia to Giovanni Sforz, and having played something incomprehensible to my mind at their wedding. He arranged a huge feast, which in addition to secular guests were invited by courtesans, and all kinds of obscenities were engaged in all kinds of obscenities to entertain people on stage. After that, Rodrigo personally led the newlyweds to the bedroom, where during their copulation he played the role of Matrona, and Lucretia skillfully pretended to be a virgin. And since it was about the virginity of Lucretia, it is probably worth it to finally talk about why Alexander VI is considered the most depraved dad in history.
It is believed that this is a portrait of Lucretia, written from nature (DOSSO DOSI is attributed, about 1519).
Even when Rodrigo was a young man, he had a love affair with the widow Elena Vannozzi, suspected of killing her husband, who caught her lover. I still did not understand, he found her with Rodrigo, or someone else, but it is not so important. When Elena was tired of Rodrigo, he turned his attention to her pretty daughter Rosa, who hated her mother and dreamed of killing her, thereby taking revenge on her father. She agreed to surrender to the Spaniard if he helped to get rid of the killer mother and the next day Elena Bannozzi died suddenly. Guess why. After Rodrigo became a cardinal, he transported the Rosa and the children of Giovanni, Cesare, Lucretia and Joffre to Rome, granted a rose beyond the palace’s quartermaster to populate them in this very palace, and under the pretext of a visit to his friend, he often stopped by them. Do you know what they did there? Huge orgies were arranged, and moreover, they called on them that already grew up Giovanni, Cesare and Lucretia. And to have fun with Lucretia was glad and Rodrigo himself. And also Giovanni and Cesare sister also did not disdain, hmm.
However, Borgia was famous not only for orgies. In addition, he was still a noble corrupt official, selling Cardinal titles, or just giving them to appease the right person. He also loved to poison his enemies. He invited them to a feast and served poisoned wine. Therefore, each dad had something like a Russian roulette, because it was not possible to abandon the invitation of the pope, and even more so from wine from his hands. And from those whom he did not poison, he took land and property, transferring them to his relatives.
On this with Rodrigo, I propose to finish, because it does not make sense to lead a story about him in isolation from his family. So I want to leave further history for material on the Brotherhood of Blood, in which Cesare and Lucretia will also be.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo di Ser Pierrot Vinci – sculptor, painter, philosopher, writer, scientist, inventor, genius, billionaire, philanthropist. but the stop is not about him about him.
If everything that is said about him is true, then you can talk about Leonardo for hours. He was a person who really got ahead of his time. At first I wanted to do something like a top 10 incredible inventions Leonardo da Vinci! But still decided to briefly talk about the turning points in the life of the inventor. We will talk about his inventions in the following material.
Born on April 15, 1452 in the small village of Ankiano near the city of Vinci. His father, Pierrot Da Vinci, was a hereditary notary, and his mother Katerina came from a peasant family, and since, according to the norms of that time, the marriage of these people was impossible because of the Mother of the plebeian, Leonardo was illegitimate and could not inherit the profession of his father
For the first three years, Leonardo lived with his mother, but Pierrot did not manage to close up his legal successor, so he took the boy to his education. At the age of 14, the parent gave Leonardo to the students of the Tuscan master Andrea Del Verrrokko. During the training with the mentor, the son of Pierro comprehended not only the art of painting and sculpture. Young Leonardo studied humanitarian and technical sciences, skill of leather dressing, the basics of working with metal and chemical reagents, in general a bunch of things that were really useful to him.
In 76, he had his own workshop, and in 1482 he goes to Milan as a court engineer. The Duke of Milan was interested in defensive adaptations and mechanical devices for the amusement of the court. There, in Milan, Leonardo was allowed to conduct autopsy for scientific purposes. He was specifically delivered by executed criminals, on which he studied human anatomy.
Having worked at the Duke for 17 years in 1499, Leonardo returns to Florence where he was setting up for the service of Cesare Borgia, for whom he created military mechanisms for 7 years. The following years, he worked again in Milan or in Rome, but still died in Florence on May 2, 1519.
In general, Leonardo is known about the works of Leonardo than I touched today, but you cannot say this about his personal life. In addition to the fact that he himself was quite closed, after accusations of a fellow garden at a young age, Da Vinci became even more hidden. Some claimed that he was gay, and some that he was not interested in sex at all. Well, it’s right at all, neither with men or women.
Lorenzo Medici is magnificent.
I think everyone has already understood that this person in his life did something really unbelievable, all the same, anyway they won’t call the magnificent.
The Medici family was not royal, there was no king in Florence, there was a Senate consisting of the most influential families of the republic. So the Medici family was not only the most influential, but also the richest. And on January 1, 1449, a little Lorenzo was born in this family, who has already been considered the most talented and promising of the Medici children since childhood. Therefore, when in 1469 the head of the Pierrot Di Kozimo family died, the new chapter, and at the same time, was the actual ruler of Florence precisely the twenty -year -old Lorenzo. Although in fairness it is worth noting that 3 his older sisters could not get up at the head of the family, because they are women, and his younger brother Juliano was more interested in the girl than politics.
Having taken the brothers of the reign of Lorenzo, it was necessary to do something with Florence, which by that time was in the ass. And he did. He made Florence Great Again. With the help of new laws, political marriages, investments of money, and sometimes intimidating the aristocrats, Florence became quite rich, and the people began to sing their ruler. However, some aristocrats did not really like the new laws, plus Lorenzo quarreled with Pope, and yes, as you already guessed, the same conspiracy of Pazzi happened. After the reprisal against the conspirators, Lorenzo introduced a number of new laws of the power that secured him, and also carried out several reforms strengthening the popular approval.
And in principle, from that moment on, Lorenzo became a kind of uncorgected king. He completely rebuilt the parliament, personally disposed of the city treasury, and marriages between influential citizens were even agreed with him. Finally Lorenzo was able to start living a calm life. Carnival, masquerades, knightly fights and other events were constantly held in the city. He began to ennoble the city, constantly building roads and new buildings, to open the art schools, and indeed attracting to Florence the best artists and sculptors. In fact, Florence at that time was the center of European art of the Renaissance. Nooo Lorenzo was a little carried away.
Spending fabulous money to pay for the work of masters, replenishment of a collection of rare publications of books and various valuable items, he dispersed the entire family condition and lost a couple of bank branches, which subsequently very badly affect the position of his successor Pierrot Medici. And in general, to conduct all these numerous carnivals, Lorenzo did not hesitate to take money from the city treasury, and these are such investments in the future know if you know. True, Lorenzo was not destined to find out about this, in the spring of 1493 at the age of forty -four years he quietly died in his country castle from gout.
Katerina Sforza.
You can tell a lot about Katerina Sforza. This was a truly strong and independent woman who was fascinated by jumps and hunting, as well as a direct part in the political life of Italy and military operations.
Katerina, being the daughter of Geleatszo, Maria Sforza, the fifth Duke of Milan, and his mistress Lucretia Landrian, was an illegitimate child, but at the same time was brought up in the palace.
Geleatszo Maria Sforza.
In 1473, when Katerina was 10 years old, her family concluded a political union and engaged her with Dzhirolamo Riario, who was almost 20 years older than her, but he was also the nephew of the pope of the Roman Sickst IV. And this same dad gave them an imola as a dowry, well, yes, the whole city gave them, and why not. After waiting for Katerina to turn 14 years old, Jirolamo officially took her as a wife, and a year later she gave birth to him Bianca Riario.
When, as a result of the conspiracy, the Orsy Dzhirolamo brothers were killed, and Katerina and her children were captured, the fortress of Rockka di Ravaldino refused to surrender, and Katerina suggested that Orsy go inside to persuade the soldier inside the fortress to surrender. The brothers deciding that this good idea agreed to her plan, especially since Katerina’s children were still hostage. However, being in the fortress, she refused to go out and began to insult the conspirators. They threatened to kill her children, to which the Sforza raised her skirt showing the crotch and said that she had everything necessary to do new. And it worked! Orsy did not touch her children!
Further, the conspirators fled, the children were released and a few months later Sforza secretly married the governor of the same fortress that she refused to surrender, Jakomo Feo, from whom she had a son Bernardino. And then something went wrong. She removed from the power of her eldest son Ottaviano and transferred control of the state to her husband, and also entrusted the relatives of Feo to manage the fortresses protecting the city. Supporters of Ottaviano did not understand such a turn and developed a successful conspiracy to kill Katerina’s second husband in 1495. In revenge for this, she killed all the guilty, and at the same time their family.
Two years later, she will get married again, though marriage will last a year. The third husband will die from the disease, therefore, this time Katerina was even nobody to take revenge.
Next, I will go into the territory of the Brotherhood of Blood, we will not delay this piece until the next time, especially since here with the reliability in the game everything is somehow completely sad.
On December 19, 1499, Cesarre Borgia, the son of Rodrigo, began the siege of Rocca Di-Ravaldino, and Katerina personally commanded the defense of the fortress with the help of more than 1000 soldiers. By the way, for such fearless resistance, she received the nickname “Tigress”. After almost a month, Borgia troops still captured the fortress and captured Katerina in captivity. There is a rumor that immediately after the capture Cesare raped Katerina, and well, it seems to me that it was so.
Then she was sent to Rome to Pope Borgia, where they kept as a dear guest, but because of her character, in the end she was exiled to Castel Sant-Angelo, the fortress that she seized 15 years ago. And by the way, yes, I did not say, but she still participated in the captures of several fortresses. Personally.
In 1501, the king of France stood up for her, Katerina was released and retired to the family villa in Florence. She spent the last few years of her life with her children, continuing to study alchemy all her life. In May 1509, when she was only 46 years old, she died of pneumonia and was buried in the monastery of Delle Murat, in the nameless tomb, as indicated in her will.
Batrolomeo d’Alviano.
A native of a noble family, Bartolomeo was born in 1455, and despite his fragile physique, since childhood he showed a love of weapons, constantly got involved in fights and communicating with mercenaries. But despite his hobbies, this did not prevent him from getting an excellent humanistic education. At a fairly young age, Bartolomeo enters the service of Pope and in 1478 takes part in the war against Florence, where he is engaged in artillery. Further from 1482 to 1484 he participates in the Ferrara war against Venice.
The alleged portrait of Bartolomeo d’Alviano.
And this is the second alleged portrait of Bartolomeo d’Alviano. What is the right thing I do not know.
But now, be careful. In 1494, Bortolomeo still served in the Papsko-Aragon Army under the leadership of Niccolo Orsini and, together with him, defeated the French army in the battle of the Faansa. And in 1496, Orsini makes a feint with his ears and passes from the papal army to the side of the French, and Bartolomeo served under the command of Orsini for many years he decides to stay with him, thereby joining a recent enemy. In general, the situation in Italy of that time was such that peaceful contracts were concluded only to break them, yesterday’s friends suddenly become enemies, and enemies friends, and then everything could again become as it was as it was. Therefore, you are not particularly surprised that a little later in 1497 Bartolomeo will unite with Pierrot Medici, with whose father he fought in 1478, and try to raise an uprising against Savonarola. But they didn’t really do it.
And then in the same year he will go to the service in Venice, with which he also fought earlier. At 1503, he left the Venetian troops to fight on the side of Spain against France in the war for Naples, and then he still returned back and served in Venice until his death in 1515. At the same time, having achieved the title of Governor General in 1509, and then in 1513, becoming the general general of the Venetian army. By the way, during these 4 years he was captured by the French king, and he could be given the title for his old merits. And by the way, he died in a battle, which is surprising, because in various wars he was more often than at home. Visceral Leishmaniosis developed from constant campaigns, so yes, we can say that the war still ruined him.
Niccolo Machiavelli.
And finally, I think you should talk about a person who was only 19 years old at the time of the events described, but they decided to score the anniversary at the moment and made it the head of the fraternity, at the same time drawing a model of a thirty -five year old man).
Born Niccolo Machiavelli on May 3, 1469 in a village near Florence. And he was born in one of the most ancient and noble families, but by that time he had already lost his condition, so in childhood he lived in relative poverty. But Niccolo tried, diligently studied, studied classical works on Latin and Italian, unfortunately there was no study of ancient Greek money, but he read Greek works in the Latin translation. But despite all efforts, success did not come to him at once.
Yes, in 1498, Machiavelli stood on the post of secretary of the Florentine office and military commission, as well as nominally the ambassador of Florence, which is undoubtedly cool. However, to make his name immortal, he managed only after death. In 1532, 5 years after the death of Nikollo, his treatise “Sovereign” was released, in which he described the main principles of state governance. Moreover, the “sovereign” was not some kind of huge multi-volume work, this is an ordinary book with a volume of no more than two hundred pages. Let’s go back a little back in time.
In 1513, Nikollo was arrested on absolutely stupid charges of participating in a conspiracy against Juliano Medici. It was not possible to prove the guilt, Machiavelli was free and at that time he begins to work on the treatise. Many say that Niccolo was inspired by the methods of Cesare Borgia, seeing in him a man who was able to unite Italy, and when writing the “sovereign” looked at him. But do not think that in his entire life he was able to give out only one good work, no, Machiavelli as a whole made a very great contribution to sociology and political science. For example, in his work “On Military Art”, he first put forward the idea that every man is obliged to carry military service. Now you know who to say thanks for this bright idea).
However, Machiavelli lived not only one policy. For example, among his works you can find the comedy “Mandragor”, which is considered the first in the genre of “Comedy of Characters”. All the works of Machiavelli are based on personal experience and observation, so there is nothing surprising that he wanted to make fun of the current society, the main features of the aristocracy of that time were hypertrophied before the absurdity.
In general, in the eyes of most contemporaries and historians, he seems to be a formidable and unprincipled tyrant. And to the greater extent the reason for this was the troubled time in which Niccolo had to grow. He believed that it was possible to perform any villain, in order to strengthen his influence. It is more useful for the sovereign to act with fear than to acquire love. And internal enemies should be exterminated at a time. At the end of the book, he writes: “The sovereign, especially the new one, cannot observe all that people are considered good for. He often needs to come to the preservation of the authorities against honesty, pity and religious commandments, but he must carefully pretend to be compassionate, honest, religious ”. Although there are also supporters of his views, considering them quite democratic.
Ciphers inside glyphs.
Throughout the game, 20 glyphs are scattered, in which the secret information of Abstergo is encrypted. I talked about the glyphs themselves in the last part, but here we will analyze the puzzles and flore in search of the mortgaged meaning. Laura will be a minimum here, since I did not set an explanation for the ENT for the ENT).
Glyph 1: Beginning.
In the very first riddle, we need to choose all the paintings on which there are apples, namely:
Hercules in the Gaysperid garden.
Atalanta and Hippomen.
The fall, which depicts Adam and Eve, whose biblical heroes were kicked out of paradise when one not very smart Madam began to take with their rakes what should not be taken.
Hercules in the Gaysperid garden. The picture dedicated to the Eleventh, or the twelfth feat of Heracles. Different authors have their own priority, but it is not so important. The essence is that the same Hesperids stole gold apples from the apples of Hera, she was Juno, and she really did not like it. And speaking very, I mean that she put the dragon under the tree so that he would not let anyone in. And Hercules needed to somehow steal these same apples.
Atalanta and Hippomen. Atalanta was incredibly beautiful and fast, and therefore everyone who came to ask her hands, she proposed to arrange a race. But the race is quite entertaining. The groom runs in front, and Atalanta behind with a spear in his hands. If the young man comes running first, they play Swabdu, and if Atalanta catches up, well, as they say, the earth with fluff. So, one day a certain hippomen came to her with a proposal of his hand and heart, but knowing how kind of Atlanta he did not come empty -handed. He brought with him 3 of the very golden apples that grow in the Hesperid garden, and every time Atalanta caught up with him, Hippomen threw an apple so that the stupid girl was distracted by the shiny and thereby won the race.
Paris court. The story is that the goddess of Ovdor Erid, by her abominable nature, was offended by the fact that she was not invited to the wedding feast of Pelei and Fetida and decided to pick up. Erida threw an apple on the holiday with the inscription “The most beautiful” well, and naturally, the ladies began to fight an apple for this, and specifically raised a buch, Athena and Aphrodite. Without solving the dispute between themselves, they asked Zeus who should go an apple. Zeus tactfully decided to dismiss and shoved this matter to the son of Tsar Troy, Paris. The goddesses realized, divided and went naked to this young man. Each convinced him to give the apple as best. Hera promised to give Paris power over all of Asia, Athena military victories and glory, and Aphrodite promised any woman. Well, of course, Paris chose Aphrodite, and fell in love with Elena Beautiful, the wife of King Sparta, which actually caused the Trojan War.
Idunn and apples. Idunn-the goddess of spring and eternal youth in German-Scandinavian mythology. She supported her youth thanks to the wonderful young apples, which were allowed to collect only. But she did not forget to give out apples and other gods so that they also did not get old.
Glyph 2: sixty-four.
In this glyph, 3 great ruler appears, who perfectly understood how they needed to play their party. And by the way, 64 is the number of cells on the chessboard.