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In 1499 the French invaded Milan, the Sforza dynasty fell, and Leonardo leftthe city, returning to Florence in 1500 and working in 1502—3, with whatseems a cynical detachment, as a military engineer for Cesare Borgia, the sonof Alexander VI, in his campaigns of conquest in Italy.

Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)

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