To be fair the Borgia where kinda dicks but that's how Middle Age Nobles roled.

(Also IF I recall didn't Leonardo like the guy?i mean i think Leonardo was a willing patron of his family at least)

actually the Borgia fam was active in the Renaissance, late 1400s.

and correct! Leonardo worked for several years with Cesare and they actually were p good friends.

Right, what I meant, but yeah avid social climbers in the 1400s. My mistake. X3

And records don't show Cesare as a terribly bad leader. By no means a genius (Most of his success can be attributed to Papacy support), he did bring order to a lot of disputed Italian lands.

(ACIII would do this again with Patriot Charles Lee, whom in real life was a fairly complex guy. Shit AC's Charles Lee doesn't even look like the real man X3).

Cesare Borgia was a pretty decent leader, and was considered to be super intelligent. he got a lot from papal support, but he actually did a lot of work on his own, militarily as well as politically. im a casual Borgia scholar so we can talk a lot about this if you'd like!

Cesare, oh Cesare,
A man of great depravity
Believed himself immortal 'til
He had a date with gravity.