[YOU ATTRACTIVE GOATEE'D FELLOW YOU. He wants to pinch your cheek fondly. That's really up for debate if he's thinking of the one on his face though. Don't worry, he'll play nice; he does enjoy good conversation over most things even pert backsides :|]

Ezio, ouais? [For the sake of not bastardizing Italian by using googletranslate like I do occasionally with French, let's say he switches to this fellow's native tongue, hm?]

I was always fond of the Italians, you know. Their way of life is compatible with my own, being France after all.

[More like fond of the Italies* but really, let's not drop the "I'm a country" bombshell coupled with "Yours is quite literally divided between two" tear gas.]