Editing Ezio Auditore da Firenze (section)

===Templar slavery in Florence===
By the spring of 1493, Ezio had returned to Italy. In Florence, he detected coercive activities which indicated that Templars had returned to the city and had begun setting up operations again. Most worrying was the disappearance of a sizable population of Florentines, all of whom were rumored to have been merchants or officials who had opposed the Templars. His time in Spain had helped cultivate strong connections with the Spanish Brotherhood, and on this occasion, he called upon them for assistance. Under his direction, three Spanish Assassins ambushed Templar thugs patrolling the streets at night, cutting them down one after another and looting their corpses for clues. In the meantime, the Assassins Perina di Bastian and Corvo Antonelli answered Ezio's other call to the Italian Brotherhood to investigate.

While Corvo was captured by the Templars, Perina's mission intersected with the Spanish team at an abandoned manse which once belonged to the noble house of Contarini. From there, the Assassins tracked the Templars to an old wine cellar where they found not only Corvo but many of the missing Florentines who had been abducted to be sold as slaves. The Templar mastermind behind this slave trade, Bonacolto Contarini, had not been discreet, and once the Assassins learned his name, they eliminated his lieutenants throughout the city to weaken him and pinpoint his location. As before, intel left on their bodies led them right to his ancestral keep in the countryside outside Florence. Ezio's Assassins then launched their final strike, assassinating Contarini in his fortress and extinguishing the Templar threat in Florence once more.

Contarini's last words boasting that the city would fall to the Templars within a year proved to be both prophetic and erroneus; over the course of the next few years, Girolamo Savonarola would seize control of the city with the Apple of Eden and rule despotically in the typical manner of Templars—but he was not a Templar himself.