Mario Auditore: Ezio’s uncle and head of the Brotherhood of the Assassins
Ezio Auditore: Assassin
Maria Auditore: Ezio’s mother
Claudia Auditore: Ezio’s sister
Angelina Ceresa: friend of Claudia’s
Federico: Mario’s stable-master
Annetta: Auditore family housekeeper
Paola: sister of Annetta
Ruggiero: master sergeant in Mario Auditore’s guards
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli: Assassin, philosopher and writer, 1469–1527
Leonardo da Vinci: artist, scientist, sculptor, etc., 1452–1519
Antonio: Assassin
Paola: Assassin
Fabio Orsini: Assassin
Bartolomeo d’Alviano: Italian Captain and Assassin, 1455–1515
Pantasilea Baglioni: Bartolomeo’s wife
Baldassare Castiglione: Associate Assassin
Pietro Bembo: Associate Assassin
Teodora: Assassin
Gilberto the Fox, la Volpe: Assassin and head of the Thieves’ Guild
Benito: member of the Thieves’ Guild
Trimalchio: member of the Thieves’ Guild
Claudio: thief and son of Trimalchio
Paganino: thief at the sacking of Monteriggioni
Madonna Solari: brothel keeper and Assassin accomplice
Agnella: prostitute from the Rosa in Fiore
Lucia: prostitute from the Rosa in Fiore
Saraghina: prostitute from the Rosa in Fiore
Margherita deghli Campi: Roman aristocrat and Assassin sympathizer
Jacopo: sailor
Camilla: Naples prostitute
Filin: ship’s captain
Captain Alberto: captain of theMarea di Alba
Acosta: Valencian doctor
Count of Lerin: Spanish count, 1430–1508
Caterina Sforza: the Countess of Forlì, daughter of Galeazzo, 1463–1509
Lorenzo de’ Medici, “Lorenzo the Magnificent”: Italian statesman, 1449–92
Piero Soderini: governor of Florence, 1450–1522
Amerigo Vespucci: friend and advisor to Soderini, 1454–1512
Rodrigo Borgia: Pope Alexander VI, 1451–1503
Cesare Borgia: son of Rodrigo, 1476–1507
Lucrezia Borgia: daughter of Rodrigo, 1480–1519
Vannozza Cattanei: mother of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, 1442–1518
Giulia Farnese: Rodrigo’s mistress, 1474–1524
Princesse Charlotte d’Albret: wife of Cesare, 1480–1514
Juan Borgia: Archbishop of Monreale and Cesare’s banker, 1476–97
Général Duc Octavien de Valois: French general and Borgia ally
Michelotto da Corella: Cesare’s right-hand man
Luca: Michelotto’s diehard
Agostino Chigi: Pope Alexander’s banker, 1466–1520
Luigi Torcelli: Cesare’s banker’s agent
Toffana: Lucrezia’s servant
Gaspar Torella: Cesare’s personal doctor
Johann Burchard: Pope Alexander VI’s master of ceremonies
Juan: Guard at La Mota
Egidio Troche: Roman senator
Francesco Troche: Egidio’s brother and Cesare’s chamberlain
Michelangelo Buonarotti: artist, sculptor, etc., 1475–1564
Vinicio: Machiavelli’s contact
Giuliano della Rovere: Pope Julius II, formerly cardinal of San Pietro in Vincoli, 1443–1513
Ascanio Sforza: cardinal, uncle of Caterina, 1455–1505
Agniolo and Innocento: assistants to Leonardo da Vinci
Pietro Benintendi: Roman actor
Dottore Brunelleschi: Roman doctor
Georges d’Amboise: the cardinal of Rouen, 1460–1510
Pope Pius III: formerly Cardinal Piccolomini, 1439–1503
Bruno: a spy