Renato Auditore

Renato Auditore was the only known son of the Assassin Domenico Auditore and his wife, and an ancestor of Desmond Miles. Renato was aboard his father's ship when it was ransacked by pirates under the employ of the Templar Order, who sought the Codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad that was in his father's possession.

After his mother's murder, Renato and his father were thrown from the vessel. The two managed to reach the shore alive, and the next day they happened upon the corpse of Renato's mother. Traveling by land, they made their way to Florence, and Domenico rented a small room for his son by using Marco Polo's bank account, before he traveled to Venice to meet with his father and patron.

Once his father had returned, Renato and Domenico adopted the name of "Auditore", impersonating a local noble family, and successfully integrating themselves as a part of the city's nobility.

Renato's father subsequently purchased and renovated what would later become the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni, and Renato soon began to train for his life as an Assassin.

Trivia

 * Renato's name came from the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish variant of the Latin name "Renatus", meaning "born again".
 * Although never explicitly named in Assassin's Creed II, Renato was named and identified as the grandfather of Giovanni Auditore da Firenze in the Abstergo files that were handed to employees of Abstergo Industries, during the second stage of the Animi Training Program.