Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Biographical information
Born	12 May 1828 London, United Kingdom
Died	9 April 1882 (aged 53) Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, United Kingdom
Species	Human
Political information
Affiliations	Elizabeth Siddal Pierrette Arnaud Simeon Price

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828 – 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He was married to model and fellow artist Elizabeth Siddal.

Biography

Rossetti was one of the major influential artist in the mid-19th century as his work was received well due to its sensuality and revival of medieval art. By 1860, his work and his personal life was influenced by his fellow artist, model, and wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal. Once they were married, they spent time in Paris as Lizzie found her former friend, French acrobat Pierrette Arnaud. In 1861, Rossetti and his wife offered a place for both Pierrette and her Assassin mentor, Simeon Price, when they came to London, in their apartment building.

In one evening, both Rossetti and Lizzie come back after their home had been ransacked, especially in Arnaud's room. Gabriel soon contacted the police and mentioned recent events, especially housing Arnaud and Price. Within their conversation, Rossetti, Lizzie, and his guests, Pierrette and Tillie Wallin, were informed of Price's arrest. Gabriel stood guard for his residence for multiple days. One day passed as Pierrette came back from the Robinson's shop with a fellow friend, Corporal Sawyer Halford, who met with the Rossetti's.

The next day, as Arnaud hosted a social gathering, Rossetti entertained some of his guests as well as his wife. Time passed as, in 1862, Rossetti found himself meeting a newly freed Simeon at the Red Lion in Holborn. He informed Price that Pierrette apparently went to Dublin but came back bruised and injured. Soon, he saw Price leave as he took his cup and continued his day with his fellow cohorts.

By February 1862, Dante lost his wife to a drug overdose and held a wake in his household. Depressed, Rossetti welcomed in Price and Arnaud as he grieved in silence.

Later life and death

After Lizzie's death, Dante moved to a house in Chelsea to grieve alone. He later recalled leaving a book of his poetry alongside Lizzie and another notebook. Telling his friend Charles Augustus Howell, Dante was told to exhume the body to retrieve the book. Doing so, he retrieved the book but remained in grief. Surrounding his house with numerous pets, Dante received his old friend Pierrette, who questioned him about Lizzie's exhumation. He spoke about how Howell convinced him and thanked Arnaud for visiting before she left. On April 9th, 1882, he died at the age of fifty-three.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot