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"Machiavelli had given him other news in Florence, a city he still set foot in only with sadness, so heaped was it with memories of his lost family and his devastated inheritance. His lost love, too - the first and, he thought, perhaps the only true one of his life - Cristina Calfucci."
Assasin’s Creed: Revelations, by Oliver Bowden, Chapter 3, page 22