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[I] had not forgotten the way to reconquer it [Urbino].

— Cesare Borgia

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Source: Cesare to Machiavelli, after the loss of Urbino (October 1502), as quoted by Rafael Sabatini, 'The Life of Cesare Borgia', Chapter XV: Machiavelli's Legation
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