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To: average joe who wrote (88375)	11/13/2004 5:27:24 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

"It appears that was a rumour started by a jealous associate. You should perhaps check your sources prior to slandering others." Well, first of all, average, I don't consider homosexuality to be anything except another interesting thing about someone. If someone can only respect Da Vinci if they believe he was heterosexual, then I think it is that person who has a problem, not Da Vinci. The world would be a very dull and not very pretty place if we wiped out all the contributions of homosexuals, don't you think? Second, I have read a LOT about Da Vinci over a period of many years, and most sources consider his homosexuality a fact. I could find a hundred different references if I didn't have other fun things to do, but here are a couple for you to ponder. Homosexuality There are no records of Leonardo's activities between 1476-1478 and no documents to place him either in Florence or anywhere else. The best that is known is that an anonymous charge of homosexuality was made early in this period by a person who wrote a letter to the city governors. After some intervention by both the defendant's family and Verrocchio the charges were dismissed, but if true that may explain why he spent much of his life as a recluse. There is certainly no evidence that he ever showed any interest in women, except as mother figures. Many people have exhausted much time trying to prove or disprove the theory that Leonardo was a homosexual. According to Freud the following sentence, taken from one of Leonardo's notebooks, "indicates his frigidity". "The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions." lairweb.org.nz In 1476 he was anonymously accused of homosexual contact with a 17-year-old model, Jacopo Saltarelli, a notorious prostitute. He was, together with three other young men, charged with homosexual conduct and acquitted because of lack of evidence. For a time Leonardo and the others were under the watchful eye of Florence's "Officers of the Night" — a kind of Renaissance vice squad. That Leonardo was homosexual is generally accepted. His longest-running relationship was with a beautiful delinquent Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, whom he nicknamed Salai (Little Devil), who entered his household at the age of 10. Leonardo supported Salai for twenty five years, and he left Salai half his vineyard in his will. en.wikipedia.org