Lodovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet and Assassin, who succeeded Ezio Auditore da Firenze as the Mentor of the Italian Assassins in 1513.
He served as a Ferraran ambassador to the Vatican on two occasions; Pope Julius II called for his death over a conflict with the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso I d'Este, but Ariosto avoided it.