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  1. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made ...

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  2. Muzio Attendolo Sforza (28 May 1369 – 4 January 1424), was an Italian condottiero. Founder of the Sforza dynasty, he led a Bolognese-Florentine army at the Battle of Casalecchio . He was the father of Francesco Sforza, who ruled Milan for 16 years.

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  4. Muzio’s illegitimate son Francesco Sforza, also a condottiere, became duke of Milan in 1450 through his marriage to the daughter of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti. Francesco’s eldest son, Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444–76), succeeded his father in 1466. Though traditionally characterized as despotic, extravagant, and dissolute, Galeazzo Maria ...

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  5. May 6, 2021 · Francesco Sforza was a pivotal figure in the state system of Italy in the 15th century. The son of a prominent condottiere, Muzio Attendolo Sforza, he inherited his father’s company of soldiers in 1424 and became one of the foremost condottieri of his time in his own right. In 1434 he took over much of the province of the Marche in the Papal ...

  6. Sforza Family . OVERVIEW . Name. The name Sforza, which means "force" in Italian, was originally the nickname of Muzio Attendolo (1369-1424), a successful condottiere in Northern Italy during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. After Muzio's death in 1424, his sons made Sforza their family name. Rulership of Milan

  7. This is the romantic story of Leonardo’s unfulfilled passion, the resurrection of the idea by Charles C. Dent, and the gift of The Horse to the people of Italy. During the 17 years that followed the Duke of Sforza’s 1482 commission of the largest equine statue ever conceived, Leonardo da Vinci also worked on one of his masterpiece paintings ...

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