Cesare took the matter in the spirit of an excellent loser.
Not a hint of his chagrin and resentment did he betray; instead, he set about furnishing his needs elsewhere, sending Vitelli to Pisa with a request for artillery, a request to which Pisa very readily responded, as much on Vitelli's account as on the duke's.

As for Florence, if Cesare Borgia could be terribly swift in punishing, he could also be formidably slow.

If he could strike upon the instant where the opening for a blow appeared, he could also wait for months until the opening should be found.

He waited now.
It would be at about this time that young Loenardo da Vinci sought employment in Cesare Borgia's service.

Leonardo had been in Milan until the summer of 1500, when he repaired to Florence in quest of better fortune; but, finding little or no work to engage him there, he took the chance of the duke of Valentinois's passage to offer his service to one whose liberal patronage of the arts was become proverbial.