Stefano da Bagnone (25 May 1418 – 10 January 1479) was a monk and secretary to Jacopo de Pazzi. Bagnone was one of the conspirators in the "Pazzi Conspiracy" in Florence, and he failed to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici during the affair. Bagnogne was tried for treason and gruesomely executed along with the other captured conspirators.
Biography[]
Bagnone was a member of the Knights Templar. He was trained in Rome to be a torturer under the guise of a monk, and like other servants of the House of Pazzi, took part in the April 1478 failed assassination attempt on the life of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence. He blessed the members of the Pazzi Conspiracy with a prayer, and Da Bagnone managed to wound Lorenzo with a knife before being chased away, managing to evade arrest. Bagnone went into hiding at the Monte Oliveto Maggiore monastery in Tuscany, where the condottiere Mario Auditore's scouts tracked him down.
Death[]
Bagnone's death
Auditore's mercenary companion Buono Veneziano informed his nephew Ezio Auditore da Firenze that Bagnone had taken up refuge at the abbey, with several of his guards disguising themselves as monks. As Ezio infiltrated the abbey, Bagnone engaged in a blasphemous tirade with a fellow monk, saying that he had become a monk to get close to the Medici, that his fellow monk was deluding himself by believing in God, that God was a fictitious madman, and that Ezio trained himself (and was not trained by the Devil). Bagnone and the other monk left the abbey and stopped at its threshold, where Auditore stabbed both of them in their necks with his hidden blades. Bagnone told Auditore that the other conspirators would meet "in the shadow of the Roman gods" at the ruins of a Roman structure.