The Pope's shock resignation is an "eruption of modernity" in the Vatican, according to Ezio Mauro, chief editor of Italy's La Repubblica daily.

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He built inventions for the protagonist, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in the three games and DLC expansions as gamers explored a virtual Renaissance Italy.

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The renaissance is largely thanks to the 2008 hiring of Ezio Gamba, a onetime judo gold medalist for Italy, to coach the men's team.

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Ezio comes to Rome and colonizes Rome.

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Both Ashley Page's "Guide to Strange Places, " a 2012 SFB commission to John Adams's not exactly dance-friendly music of the same name, and Christopher Wheeldon's 2008 commission, "Within the Golden Hour" (to Ezio Bosso and Antonio Vivaldi), duly showed off SFB.

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