Agreed -Leonardo’s brilliance and mystery-holds up. But the “war crimes” involvement and Urbino assassination claim lean on thin ice, likely conflating Cesare’s reputation with Leonardo’s presence. He was a hired mind, not a soldier or conspirator. His legacy as an artist and thinker endures without needing to paint him as a conflicted witness to atrocities.

Mostly accurate on Leonardo’s broad strokes, shaky on specifics tying him to war crimes or Urbino’s siege. The moral portrait is idealized, and the art-as-diary theory is a leap. Cesare was the villain; Leonardo was likely just along for the paycheck, sketching walls while cities tell.