Francesco Vecellio (c. 1475 – 1560) was an Italian painter, and a member of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. He was raised and trained by Perotto Calderon, an Assassin secretly posing as a courier for the Borgia family. After Perotto's betrayal of the Brotherhood, resulting in his death, Francesco was sent to train under Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who had traveled to Rome to fight the Borgia. Upon his graduation, Francesco was chosen to lead his own core team of Assassins, and would later accept apprentices of his own.