Giovanni returns home while Uberto gets Father Antonio Maffei to decode the letter. He presents the letter to Lorenzo and Uberto Alberti, Florence's Gonfaloniere of Justice, but it is encrypted. Furious, Giovanni takes the letter and returns to Florence. Before he can interrogate him, however, the courier commits suicide.
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The men dispatch a courier to deliver a letter to 'their master' in Rome, whom Giovanni intercepts and overpowers. His investigation leads him to St Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace, where he eavesdrops on a conversation between two men (Silvio and Marco Barbarigo). Giovanni arrives in Venice to search for whoever ordered the Duke of Milan's death. In private, he monologues that the Duke's death has robbed Medici of a powerful ally, but that he knows where to find the culprits. Returning home, Giovanni watches his elder sons play chess, and gives some advice to his younger son Ezio. After killing the assassins with help from the Duke's guards, Giovanni searches one of the bodies and finds several coins stamped with the coat of arms of Venice. Giovanni races to Milan, but fails to prevent the Duke's assassination. The man reveals that the Duke of Milan will be assassinated during the Feast of St Stephen, when the church bell strikes for the twelfth and final time. Giovanni brings the surviving mercenary to Lorenzo de' Medici, who has him tortured for information. Giovanni kills two of the mercenaries and incapacitates the third, but Borgia escapes in the confusion.
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Outside, he ambushes a party of mercenaries led by Rodrigo Borgia as they attempt to sneak out of the city. From the shadows, he quietly watches his family enjoying themselves at dinner, before departing into the moonlit streets of Florence. In Florence in 1476, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore monologues about the corruption, betrayal and murder hidden behind the enlightenment of the Renaissance, and about his fight to preserve justice, honor, and his family's safety.