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The Florentines chose two negotiators: Francesco Solderini and the most capable young diplomat they had, Niccol\u00f2 Macchiavelli. Somehow they reached an agreement, and Leonardo da Vinci (perhaps part of the deal) transferred to Cesare Borgia&#8217;s pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, reconquered the territories of Romagna, defeating various local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>April 1501 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/april-1501\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"April 1501 - 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