Uploaded April 2010 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago

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You need to stay aloft by flying over the fires. At the same time, try to avoid
the archer arrows. As Leonardo suggested, you could kick some of them off.

Doing this is as simple as locking onto one ahead of you with L1 and flying
as straight at them as you can. Don't take unnecessary risks though just to get
a "kick" out of this. Pardon the pun, but seriously, don't just try to kick
guys off if you have to take a bad angle to do so. Try to do it at least once
to get the "Flyswatter" Trophy and then focus on flying and hitting the fires
to stay aloft.

I find the best route to be to go north, then east toward the river and hit
the fires on the boat and continue east from there, before turning to the
right to finally get to the basilica.

Once you make it (hopefully), you need to get into position. The archers up
here can spot you and if they do, you'll need to start over. Therefore, use
the columns up here to hide behind then try to quietly sneak in for Hidden
Blade kills. Your throwing knives won't work since you need more than one for
a kill. You can also climb the columns and do air assassinations.

Make your way around, killing all three, then you can drop down to the window
as noted by the white marker. You'll get a scene.

You might be disappointed to see it's not the E3 demo. I was at least, but this
was still a very fun mission. Fight your way down the staircase. Eliminate
every guard. They're pretty simple, no Brutes, so have fun. After that, you'll
find Grimaldi hasn't gone anywhere and is just standing there, trembling,
waiting for Ezio to deliver the coup de grace, so give it to him.

Now, leave the basilica through the now open front doors and get far enough
away to become anonymous again. This end the mission, gets you a Codex Page,
and ends Sequence 8.