Anonymous ID: ce8b87 March 31, 2024, 9:26 a.m. No.20657401   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>7407

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Michael White, in Leonardo: The First Scientist, says it is likely that the trial simply made Leonardo cautious and defensive about his personal relationships and sexuality, but did not dissuade him from intimate relationships with men: "there is little doubt that Leonardo remained a practising homosexual".

 

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/leonardo-da-vinci-jewish

 

https://jpisbouts.medium.com/leonardo-da-vinci-and-the-borgias-903f0367e3e0

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci

Anonymous ID: ce8b87 March 31, 2024, 9:27 a.m. No.20657407   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>7410 >>7416

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The only historical document concerning Leonardo's sexual life is an accusation of sodomy made in 1476,[21] when he was almost 24, and still at the workshop of Verrocchio.[22] Florentine court records show that on 9 April 1476, an anonymous denunciation was left in the tamburo (letter box) in the Palazzo della Signoria (town hall) accusing a young goldsmith and male prostitute, Jacopo Saltarelli (sometimes referred to as an artist's model) of being "party to many wretched affairs and consents to please those persons who request such wickedness of him". The denunciation accused four people of sodomizing Saltarelli: Leonardo da Vinci, a tailor named Baccino, Bartolomeo di Pasquino, and Leonardo Tornabuoni, a member of the aristocratic Tornabuoni family. Saltarelli's name was known to the authorities because another man had been convicted of sodomy with him earlier the same year.[23] Charges against the five were dismissed on the condition that no further accusations appear in the tamburo. The same accusation did in fact appear on 7 June, but charges were again dismissed.[24]

 

The charges were dismissed because the accusations did not meet the legal requirement for prosecution: all accusations of sodomy had to be signed, but this one was not. Such accusations could be made secretly, but not anonymously. There is speculation that since the family of one of the accused, Leonardo Tornabuoni, was associated with Lorenzo de' Medici, the family exerted its influence to secure the dismissal.[25][26] Sodomy was theoretically an extremely serious offense, carrying the death penalty, but its very seriousness made it equally difficult to prove. It was also an offence for which punishment was very seldom handed down in contemporary Florence, where homosexuality was sufficiently widespread and tolerated to make the word Florenzer (Florentine) slang for homosexual in Germany.[27]

 

A comedic illustration made in 1495 for a poem by Gaspare Visconti may depict Leonardo as a court lawyer with allusions to his alleged homosexual proclivities.[28] Michael White points out that willingness to discuss aspects of Leonardo's sexual identity has varied according to contemporary attitudes.[29][30] His near-contemporary biographer Vasari makes no reference to Leonardo's sexuality whatsoever.[10] In the 20th century, biographers made explicit references to a probability that Leonardo was homosexual,[31] though others concluded that for much of his life he was celibate.[32]

 

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Anonymous ID: ce8b87 March 31, 2024, 9:27 a.m. No.20657410   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Elizabeth Abbott, in her History of Celibacy, contends that, although Leonardo was probably homosexual, the trauma of the sodomy case converted him to celibacy for the rest of his life.[33] A similar view of a homosexually inclined but chaste Leonardo appears in a famous 1910 paper by Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, which analysed a memory Leonardo described of having been attacked as a baby by a bird of prey that opened his mouth and "stuck me with the tail inside my lips again and again". Freud claimed the symbolism was clearly phallic, but argued that Leonardo's homosexuality was latent, and that he did not act on his desires.[34][35] However, Freud's premise was based on an erroneous translation of the bird as a vulture, leading him in the direction of Egyptian mythology, when it was actually a kite in Leonardo's story.[36]

 

Other authors contend that Leonardo was actively homosexual. Serge Bramly states that "the fact that Leonardo warns against lustfulness certainly need not mean that he himself was chaste".[30] David Friedman argues that Leonardo's notebooks show a preoccupation with men and with sexuality uninterrupted by the trial and agrees with art historian Kenneth Clark that Leonardo never became sexless.[34][37] Michael White, in Leonardo: The First Scientist, says it is likely that the trial simply made Leonardo cautious and defensive about his personal relationships and sexuality, but did not dissuade him from intimate relationships with men: "there is little doubt that Leonardo remained a practising homosexual".[38]

John the Baptist, Leonardo (1513โ€“16). Several copies exist, including one by Salaรฌ himself.

The Incarnate Angel, workshop of Leonardo, (charcoal drawing, c. 1515)

 

Leonardo's late painting of Saint John the Baptist is often cited as support of the case that Leonardo was homosexual. There is also an erotic drawing of Salaรฌ known as The Incarnate Angel, accepted as being by the hand of Leonardo,[39] which was one of a number of such drawings once among those contained in the British Royal Collection, but later dispersed. The particular drawing, showing an angel with an erect phallus, was rediscovered in a German collection in 1991. It appears to be a humorous take on Leonardo's St. John the Baptist.[40] Leonardoโ€˜s folio Codex Atlanticus includes two pages of drawings by a hand other than Leonardo's, one of which is a crudely drawn sketch depicting an anus, identified as "Salaรฌ's bum", pursued by penises on legs with tails.[41] Giorgio Vasari described Salaรฌ as "a graceful and beautiful youth with curly hair, in which Leonardo greatly delighted".[41]

 

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